A solo sailor making an attempt to interrupt a transatlantic document together with his 21-foot sailboat needed to be rescued by the Coast Guard simply hours into his journey on Sunday.

French sailor Olivier Jehl was making an attempt to sail the favored but treacherous route from New York to Lizard Point, England on his 6.5 Mini-class crusing vessel in simply 15 days or much less. If profitable, the journey would have set a North Atlantic crusing document for the smallest boat to make the journey, and in document time.

But simply hours after departing from New York Harbor on Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard obtained an EPIRB alert from Jehl indicating that he was in hassle and in want of rescue.

A Coast Guard helicopter from Atlantic City, New Jersey arrived at his place simply after 6 p.m. Sunday night time to find that his boat had sunk and that he was inside his inflatable raft. 

A take a look at a monitoring map displaying Jehl’s final place confirmed that he made it simply 90 miles or so from Atlantic City earlier than he needed to be rescued.

According to the Coast Guard, it seems that his boat might have hit a submerged object, inflicting it to tackle water and sink.

Despite Jehl’s unhealthy luck on this case, we commend him for his emergency preparedness that definitely assisted in his speedy and profitable rescue.