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The Indian Abhilash Tomy makes a gesture on his boat Thuriya as he leaves the port of Sables d'Olonne on July 1 for the start of the race around the world in "Golden Globe Race". GPS or computers.
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The Indian Abhilash Tomy makes a gesture on his boat Thuriya as he leaves the port of Sables d'Olonne on July 1 for the start of the race around the world in "Golden Globe Race". GPS or computers.
Jean-François Monier / AFP / Getty Images
A solo sailboat whose sailboat was rolled up and dismantled in a storm in the Indian Ocean during a race around the world was rescued four days after asking for help.
Abhilash Tomy, a 39-year-old commander of the Indian Navy, was taken from his shattered boat, Thuriya, about 1,900 miles west of Australia by a French patrol boat.
"Tomy was taken out of his yacht on a stretcher, he is aware, and he is safe," said Indian Navy spokesman Captain D.K. Sharma told reporters.
Tomy competed in the non-stop, unsupported round-the-world race of the Golden Globe, a repeat of a famous 1968 race. Participants flee modern electronic devices, such as GPS, to navigate and use sextants and navigation instead. heavenly to find their position at sea.
In the first race of the Golden Globe, several participants were forced to give up, one refused to finish despite his advance and another died by suicide after getting off his boat. Tomy's two-masted ketch is a replica of Suhaili, the boat that eventually won the race.
Of the 18 sailors who participated in this year's Golden Globe, Tomy and seven others dropped out. Another boat was also dismasted in the same storm that damaged Tomy.
The BBC reports that "Tomy was able to communicate using an SMS sending unit after his satellite phone was broken, and he sent a first message that he was suffering from a serious back injury and was unable to eat or drink ".
Since the first report on the demolition of Thuriya on Friday, India and other countries had undertaken rescue operations.
The Indian Navy spokesman, quoted by NDTV, said Tomy had sent a "ping" with his emergency locator transmitter, or EPIRB, as the plane approached his position.
The organizers of the Golden Globe have welcomed Tomy's decision to leave the race.
"Facing a 1,900-mile sail across the Southern Ocean to Western Australia under a small, unpowered jury bench (its fuel was contaminated by the sinking of the ship) nearby," the organizers wrote. the race.
"The alternative would have been to continue to sail alone without the help of the homing device (also crushed during the capsizing) and to risk having to call the rescue services in case of a new storm," said the organizers.
