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A man survives 16 hours trapped in an overturned sailboat in the Atlantic

2022-08-04T13:06:40.654Z


The man survived thanks to an air bubble inside his sailboat after it capsized in the Atlantic Ocean.


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Madrid --

A 62-year-old French man survived for 16 hours in an air bubble inside his capsized sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued by Spanish coast guard divers in what they described as an operation "bordering on the impossible".

The 12-meter sailboat Jeanne SOLO Sailor sent out a distress signal at 8:23 p.m. local time on Monday from 22 kilometers off the Sisargas Islands, off the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, according to the coastguard.

Tracking data shows that she had set sail from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, on the morning of the previous day.

As a rescue ship carrying five divers set sail, one of three helicopters dispatched to assist in the search located the capsized boat as the sun set.

A diver entered the hull of the sailboat to look for signs of life and the man inside, whose name has not been released, responded to his blows on the hull by striking from the inside.

As the seas were too rough to attempt a rescue, buoyancy balloons were attached to the ship's hull to prevent further sinking, and they waited until morning.

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Two divers swam under the ship to help extricate the sailor, who was found wearing a neoprene survival suit and knee-deep in water.

Vicente Cobelo, a member of the coast guard special operations team, told a local station that the man voluntarily jumped into the icy water and swam under the ship to reach the surface of the sea.

"On his own initiative, he got into the water and came out freediving, helped by the divers who had to pull him because it was difficult for him to get out in the suit," he said.

He was airlifted to safety and taken to hospital for check-ups, but was released shortly afterward without issue.

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Source: cnnespanol

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