French adventurer dies attempting solo Atlantic crossing

LE PECQ, France (AP) — A 75-year-old French adventurer has died on a solo attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean. The death of Jean-Jacques Savin was announced by his friends on a Facebook page that had been chronicling his voyage. They said in a post that maritime rescue services located his body on Saturday inside the cabin of his boat named “Audacious” after it had overturned. Savin set off from Portugal at the start of January on the westward voyage he had anticipated would take about three months. In 2019, Savin had previously floated alone across the Atlantic in a large barrel-shaped capsule. Propelled only by winds and currents, that crossing from Spain’s Canary Islands to the Caribbean took 127 days. Savin had activated two distress beacons on Thursday night.