Jean Jacques Savin was -at the time of the last contact- offshore, north of Madeira, heading towards the small island of Ponta Delgada.
The body of a French septuagenarian, who had been rowing across the Atlantic since January 1, “was found lifeless inside the cabin of his canoe,” his team reported to the French agency AFP on Saturday.
Jean Jacques Savin, who turned 75 on January 14 aboard his canoe “Audaz”, eight meters long and 1.70 wide, had set sail on January 1 from Sagres (southern Portugal) to become “the dean of the Atlantic”, willing to perform a feat to “mock old age”.
On Friday, he activated his distress beacons and on Saturday, his team reported that they had “no contact” with him since. According to his team, Portuguese maritime security located his capsized boat off the Azores on Friday and this Saturday, “a diver was able to descend and visit the boat.”
At the time of the last contact, Savin was in the high seas, north of Madeira, and was heading towards the small island of Ponta Delgada, in the Azores archipelago, to repair his boat, said the communication manager of the team of volunteers. After being blown off course by the wind, the septuagenarian had problems with the electric battery and solar collectors. (I)
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