71 year old starts his float across the Atlantic

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2018/12/27/71-year-old-man-attempts-float-across-atlantic-ocean-capsule/2425214002/

 

A 71-year-old man is making his way across the Atlantic in a barrel

 

A Frenchman has set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a bright orange barrel.

 

TIME

 

A 71-year-old Frenchman is relying entirely on Mother Nature to help him cross the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Jean-Jacques Savin boarded a barrel-shaped capsule that took months to craft and set out Wednesday from El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, according to his Facebook page. He is attempting to navigate the vast Atlantic in pursuit of the Caribbean using only the wind and current to get him there.

 

Savin, a former military paratrooper, describes the challenge on his website as "a crossing where the man would not be captain of his boat, but passenger of the Ocean."

 

Jean-Jacques Savin, a 71-year-old former paratrooper, crafted a ship made from a barrel at the shipyard in Ares, southwestern France.

 

GEORGES GOBET, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

 

He is expected to spend the next two to three months aboard the orange barrel, which measures 10 feet long and just under 7 feet wide. It is made of polyester to endure shock and balanced with a weighted keel, and is complete with four windows, a stove, gas cylinders and a GPS tablet.

 

Jean-Jacques Savin is attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel only pushed by the ocean currents, from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean Show more

 

 

 

GEORGES GOBET, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

 

In addition to freeze-dried food, AFP News Agency reports that Savin brought along a bottle of Sauternes white wine and foie gras to celebrate New Year's Eve and a bottle of Saint-Émilion red wine for his 72nd birthday in January.

 

Fans are able to track Savin's progress throughout his voyage.

 

"Thanks to the modern means of communication, I will be able to indicate my position and give various information to the media throughout my journey," he said on his website. "This will be an opportunity to multiply the appearances of the barrel on the air."

 

Savin told AFP shortly after sailing off that he's "moving at two or three kilometers an hour."

 

 

 

 

I would be pretty bored, but that takes some balls to do this.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

Look at me

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,566]

modern means of communication???

 

how many cell towers in the Atlantic

 

also

 

Why??

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

modern means of communication???

 

how many cell towers in the Atlantic

 

also

 

Why??

Satellite phone. And look at me.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,566]

Satellite phone. And look at me.

 

satellite phone isn't a modern means of communication

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

 

satellite phone isn't a modern means of communication

Whatever dude. The guy is 71. It's modern.

[wiffleball 4,631]

Bill him for the inevitable rescue.

[NorthernVike 2,079]

Bury him at sea.

[SenatorRock 708]

This crew managed to get from northern Africa, not far from the Canaries, to the Caribbean just fine with no fuel and no sails.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/29/gilestremlett.mainsection

 

I bet the old bastard makes it.

[cyclone24 1,797]

"Cool"

 

--Sharks

[frank 2,144]

Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.

[fandandy 3,311]

Captains Log

 

Day Two

 

All the wine is gone. I am so focking bored, and sick. I feel seasick. Shoulda thought this through.

[NorthernVike 2,079]

Captains Log

 

Day Two

 

All the wine is gone. I am so focking bored, and sick. I feel seasick. Shoulda thought this through.

[RLLD 3,455]

Good for him I guess, he might not have much time left, might as well do something he thinks is fun....

[tanatastic 2,061]

It’s a pretty nice vessel, def not the barrel they claim with clickbait.

[kutulu 1,542]

Barrels are for waterfalls not this weak ocean bullshitte