Turkish sailors aboard a personal oil tanker belonging to a Turkish firm rescued a French man who had gone lacking off the Atlantic coast a while in the past in a rescue operation on June 24, the native media reported Monday.
The sailors on the Turkish ship initiated a rescue operation following a warning message issued by the U.S. Coast Guard.
They rescued the French adventurer Didier Bovard, who had been lacking at sea for 137 days whereas progressing within the Atlantic Ocean together with his particular 6-meter boat off the coast of Puerto Rico, in a six-hour operation.
Bovard, who set off from the Canary Islands, was aboard a custom-made pedal-powered boat and was pulled onto the deck by the efforts of the Turkish sailors after the six-hourlong operation.
“They asked us to rescue the boat. The message from the U.S. Coast Guard said, ‘A boat is in distress, drifting 200 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico, with no mobility and a storm approaching. If it gets caught in the storm, it cannot be saved. You are the closest ship, and we want you to rescue it,” Captain Necati Doğan said in his social media publish.
“We immediately initiated the necessary procedures and changed the ship’s course to reach the location quickly. After about four hours of searching, we only saw a shining mirror and headed toward it,” he stated.
Explaining that they whistled to alert the person and advised him to get into the boat as they’d throw a rope, Doğan famous they tried to connect part of the 200-meter skinny rope to the 6-meter boat, and fortunately succeeded in saving the French man.
“The man looked very tired and exhausted, so we immediately gave him water and chocolate to replenish his energy and checked his blood pressure,” he added.
“First, he asked for a soda, then he said ‘no power’ or something and asked for something sweet,” Doğan defined.
The French man, who had been within the ocean for 137 days, departed the ship with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
