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Vendée Globe: how the French Navy recovered Kevin Escoffier

2020-12-08T12:21:44.088Z


STORY - The skipper saved by Jean Le Cam has been successfully transferred to the frigate Nivôse."No need for an end, just go nature. » The last advice« à la Audiard »from Jean Le Cam to Kevin Escoffier is that of an old sea dog, used to gauging the hostility of his environment. And to smell the stuff of those around him. Sunday morning, in the heart of a tumultuous triangle between Bonne-Espérance, the Kerguelen and Madagascar where ordinary people would never imagine soaking a toe, the dean


"No need for an end, just go nature.

»

The last advice« à la Audiard »from Jean Le Cam to Kevin Escoffier is that of an old sea dog, used to gauging the hostility of his environment.

And to smell the stuff of those around him.

Sunday morning, in the heart of a tumultuous triangle between Bonne-Espérance, the Kerguelen and Madagascar where ordinary people would never imagine soaking a toe, the dean of the Vendée Globe knew that his new friend, saved from a shipwreck for five days earlier, could dive without fear from his monohull.

A handful of seconds after having jumped into the water, the Malouin, equipped with his survival suit, was hoisted aboard the semi-rigid of the French Navy, responsible for transferring it to the frigate

Nivôse

.

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Le Figaro:

"I tried to make life as sweet as possible for Jean Le Cam"

Launched in the middle of last week, the Escoffier transshipment operation went off without a hitch.

But not without difficulty.

The lot of any maneuver in this hostile Great South.

"I am very happy, because the success was not

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Source: lefigaro

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