“There have been confusions that we are currently trying to clear up,” the adventurer’s team told AFP in France.
Article written by
Posted
Update
Reading time : 1 min.
Contrary to what had been announced the day before by his team, the body of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin, a septuagenarian adventurer who was trying to cross the Atlantic by rowing, was not found aboard his canoe, announced Sunday. January 23 the Portuguese Navy. “The search ended yesterday at the end of the day (Saturday) without it being possible to find the victim” whose boat was found off the Azores archipelago, the Lusitanian Navy said in a statement.
The day before, the entourage of the 75-year-old navigator, who had made himself known by crossing the Atlantic in a barrel in 2019, had reported that his body had been “found lifeless” inside his boat in the cabin of the canoe L’Audacieux. Questioned Sunday evening by AFP, a spokeswoman for the Portuguese navy explained that during the rescue operation the rescuers had had “strong reasons to believe that a body could be found inside”.
“There have been confusions that we are currently trying to clarify. We do not know more. We are awaiting information from the Portuguese authorities”, specified for its part the team of the adventurer to AFP in France.