Jean Jacques Savin

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Jean-Jacques Savin (born January 14, 1947 in Arès ; † January 21, 2022 at sea off the Azores ) was a French extreme sportsman and adventurer .

Live and act

Savin was initially a triathlete and military skydiver. Other stations in his life were wildlife park rangers in Central Africa and four crossings of the Atlantic in a sailing boat. He also climbed Mont Blanc and swam the Bassin d'Arcachon four times . Savin was the father of one daughter. He died in January 2022 trying to cross the Atlantic alone in a rowboat .

Atlantic crossing 2019 with barrel

He embarked on December 27, 2018 from El Hierro on an Atlantic crossing in a barrel without his own propulsion and wanted to reach the Caribbean Sea in a three-month voyage using only currents and the winds of the trade wind and west wind zone. The adventure found international coverage in the media and could be followed via GPS data. Savin also reported regularly from the road. On April 27, 2019, he encountered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel NOAAS Ronald H. Brown , which provided him with provisions. After 122 days at sea (and thus significantly more than the originally planned three months), Savin reached the Caribbean on April 28, 2019. On May 2, 2019, Savin was towed offshore by an oil tanker and taken to the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius , having traveled a distance of 2,930  nautical miles (5,400 km). A few days later, a tow boat took him to the French overseas department of Martinique .

The used wind flow (Yellow)

Savin did research on the way, e.g. to ocean currents and, together with doctors, to loneliness . During the trip he was working on a book about the experiment.

Atlantic crossing 2022 by rowing boat

On January 1, 2022, Savin left the southern tip of mainland Portugal in a rowing boat to cross the Atlantic. The rowing boat , eight meters long and 1.70 meters wide , was loaded with 300 kilograms of equipment and provisions. On January 14th he celebrated his 75th birthday on board. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, he had to take a longer route. On the night of January 21, Savin activated two emergency radio beacons from his boat and contact with him was lost. On the same day, the Portuguese Coast Guard found the boat capsized off the Azores. A day later, Savin's body was found in the cabin of the boat by a Coast Guard diver.

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  1. ↑ Frenchman, 71, sets off on transatlantic crossing in orange barrel. December 27, 2018, accessed January 23, 2022 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Washington Post press release May 8, 2019
  3. ↑ 1:51 p.m., January 3, 2019: Jean-Jacques Savin (71): Atlantic crossing in ton – "Everything is going well". January 3, 2019, retrieved January 23, 2022 .
  4. ↑ Website L'ATLANTIQUE EN TONNEAU Homepage with videos & live reports (Traverser l'Océan Atlantique dans les conditions d'un naufragé)
  5. ↑ Kerstin Zillmer: Diogenes did it! April 30, 2019, accessed January 23, 2022 (German).
  6. ↑ Atlantic: Jean-Jacques Savin floated in a barrel for 122 days . In: The Mirror . 29 April 2019, ISSN  2195-1349 ( spiegel.de [accessed 23 January 2022]).
  7. ↑ a b Jean-Jacques Savin: Frenchman completes Atlantic crossing in barrel . In: BBC News . 10 May 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed 23 January 2022]).
  8. ↑ Pensioner wants to cross the Atlantic in a wooden barrel. Retrieved January 23, 2022 .
  9. ^ " Spiegel" press report : Off the Azores - French rower died while crossing the Atlantic
  10. ↑ Press report CBS News : French adventurer who set out to row across Atlantic missing after sending distress signals off Portugal
  11. ↑ Adventurer dies in rowing boat crossing Atlantic , retrieved 24 January 2022
personal data
SURNAME Savin, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French adventurer
BIRTH DATE January 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ares , France
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH off the Azores at sea