Daily Nigerian
French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin, who set off in a rowboat from Portugal on Jan. 1 to cross the Atlantic solo has vanished at sea.
Portugal’s navy on Monday reported that his boat was found overturned and empty near the Azores archipelago.
The 75-year-old Savin’s support team had said in a Facebook post on Saturday that his body had been found inside the cabin of his sleek purpose-built boat.
However, on Sunday it issued another statement signed by his daughter Manon that the body had not been recovered.
“To date, we have no official confirmation from the Portuguese maritime authorities,” she wrote.
A Portuguese Navy statement on Sunday said a search for Savin’s boat began after a distress signal sent just before midnight on Thursday.
The search involved a naval corvette, three aircraft and several merchant ships, one of which found a waterproof bag with Savin’s documents inside, it said.
