The little phrase had been in his head since childhood, so he did it.
"A barrel launched off the Canary Islands takes 3 months to reach the Caribbean"
, wrote Alain Bombard, who, in 1952, undertook to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard an inflatable boat.
In 2019, Jean-Jacques Savin in turn drifted from one continent to another aboard a 6m2 barrel.
“We all have crazy dreams.
The only difference was that Jean-Jacques, him, applied them”,
sums up his friend Philippe Gravaud.
Read alsoAtlantic rowing: the Portuguese navy denies having found the body of French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin
Until you lose your life.
The Girondin adventurer disappeared at sea in the night from Thursday to Friday off the Azores, while he was trying to reach the West Indies by rowing.
The Portuguese navy announced on Sunday that it was stopping search operations.
The sailor had triggered his two distress beacons and indicated that he was “in great difficulty”, two days after having mentioned “the strong swell and the force of the wind”, which had lengthened his course…
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