
French Adventurer Crosses Atlantic in a Barrel. Reaches Caribbean After 122 Days
After 127 days and 3,125 nm, Jean-Jacques Savin, a 72-year French adventurer, is back on dry land, having crossed the Atlantic in his ten-foot-long barrel propelled only by the ocean currents. He left El Hierro in the Canary Islands in December, hoping that the currents and winds would carry him to the Caribbean. He sent out a message after 122 days that his GPS showed that he had reached the meridian marking the Caribbean; he then drifted for five more days before a passing oil tanker picked him and took him to the small Dutch island of St. Eustatius, the…