CEO of Quicksilver Missing at Sea; His Boat Washes Up on Beach in Biarritz, France
Pierre Agnès, the CEO of the U.S. adventure clothing brand Quicksilver, is officially “missing at sea” after his 36-foot fishing boat washed up on a beach near Biarritz, France. Agnès, 54, was last seen at 7:30 in the morning when he left Biarritz, the upscale resort on the southwest coast, to go fishing in the Atlantic by himself on his boat, Mascaret 111, in rough seas. At 9 a.m., Agnès, a former member of the French national surfing team and an experienced boat captain, called the Biarritz harbormaster to say he was delaying his return because of fog. Half an hour…