The former military had already crossed the ocean in a barrel pushed by the currents, in 2019. His body was found by the relief, Saturday, the broad of the Azores.
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The Girondin Jean-Jacques Savin, 75, who tried to cross the Atlantic to the train, was found dead in his canoe off the archipelago of the Azores, Saturday, January 22. The “Corps of Jean-Jacques has been found without life inside the booth of its bold canoe,” announced, in a statement, The team of volunteers followed the adventure of the septuagenarian .
The “Portuguese sea security had located yesterday [Friday] the boat unfortunately returned off the Azores. A diver was able to go down and visit the boat this Saturday”, says the text that adds that “the ocean has this time – been stronger than our friend, he who loved so much navigation and sea “. The team also pointed out that it knows “not yet the exact circumstances of the tragedy”.
The browser, who had made known by crossing the Atlantic in a barrel in 2019, pushed by the winds and the currents, aroused since Friday morning the concern of his relatives, to whom he did not give any sign of Life since the night from Thursday to Friday. “We are very worried,” said AFP members of the team, who had lost his trace north of Madeira. “Unfortunately, since 00 h 34 yesterday morning, we have no contact or any manifestation on his part,” they said after clarifying that the browser then triggered “his two distress tags telling us to be” in great difficulty “”.
Serious energy and communication problems
On the Facebook page devoted to his project, Manon, his daughter, had indicated that “everything was immediately implemented in coordination with the French, Portuguese and American sea rescue services.” In the last contacts, Jean -Jacques savin was off, north of Madeira, and made road to the small island of Ponta Delgada, in the Archipelago of the Azores, to make repairs.
Shortly after his departure from Sagres, in the south of Portugal, the January, the adventurer was quickly confused because of bad winds. His initial course had been extended by 900 kilometers. He then met with serious energy and communication problems.
Wednesday, on his Facebook page, Jean-Jacques Savin mentioned the “strong swell and the force of wind”, adding that he had to “use [his] manual desaltor”. “It costs me physical energy. Rest assured, I’m not in danger!” He wrote.
Inhabitant of Ares in the Arcachon basin, he intended to cross the Atlantic to the boat in the canoe and become “the dean of the Atlantic”, “a way to narggging old age”. He celebrated his 75 years on the 14th of January on board his canoe eight-meter long, 1.70 m wide and equipped with two cabins and a train of travelers.
“I leave in Holidays to the Grand Large “
On board, 300 kilos of equipment, including lyophilized food, a heating point, a harpoon rifle for fishing, electric desaltor and manual, mandolin, champagne, savers and foie gras for celebrate his birthday. “I’m going on vacation to the big broad, I take three months of vacation,” he was having fun before his departure.
Great sportsman and “adventurer in the soul”, this old parachutist military, slim and muscular, had spent in 2019 more than four months in a barrel-shaped boat of three meters long and 2.10 m in diameter . He had thus crossed the Atlantic alone, pushed by the winds and the currents.
This former private pilot and preservative of National Park in Africa thus rallied the West Indies, which he hoped again to join the train. He had signed a book, 127 days drifting. The Atlantic in barrel, on its adventure that had also been followed by 23,000 people on Facebook. “I’m going to row eight hours a day, and when it will blow herself, I lock it up [Rai],” he said before starting his journey.