Sailing: a racing monohull struck by lightning, its sailors saved by a cargo ship. Returning from the Antilles, the Class 40 Sogestran Seafrigo was hit by lightning.
The lightning caused a fire and a leak, fortunately very quickly brought under control by the two sailors on board, Pierrick Letouzé and Noa Geoffroy. “After 12 hours needed to identify the position of the navigators and rescue them, they were welcomed aboard the freighter Frio Ionan en route to Panama,” their team detailed in a press release.