The 75-year-old adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin had left to cross the Atlantic by rowing. His lifeless body was found in his canoe L’Audacieux according to the team of volunteers who followed him. Earlier, her distress beacons had been triggered.
He left on January 1st in this crazy rowing crossing and had already encountered difficulties related to the swell and the wind. But so far everything was going well for the Girondin Jean-Jacques Savin. However, since the night of Thursday to Friday, the septuagenarian, recently located off the coast of Portugal, gave no sign of life.
Emergency services contacted
In a text published Saturday on Facebook, on the page “Jean-Jacques Savin: rowing across the Atlantic”, Manon, her daughter, expressed her concern.
The team was in particular in contact with CROSS Gris-Nez (Pas-de-Calais), in charge of rescue at sea for French sailors. During the last contacts, Jean-Jacques Savin was offshore, north of Madeira and was on his way to the small island of Ponta Delgada, in the Azores archipelago. For the time being, the circumstances of the death are unknown according to his team.
As a reminder, the 75-year-old man from Arès in the Arcachon basin had set himself the crazy project of becoming the “dean of the Atlantic” by rowing across the ocean, aboard a canoe 8 meters long and 1.70 meters wide, with only 300kg of equipment, including food, a spear gun for fishing, a watermaker for drinking, its mandolin, Champagne, Sauterne and foie gras to celebrate her birthday at sea on January 14th.