{"id":3898,"date":"2013-01-20T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2013-01-20T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T17:27:40","slug":"updated-cruise-ship-rescues-french-sailor-alain-delord-off-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/updated-cruise-ship-rescues-french-sailor-alain-delord-off-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Cruise Ship Rescues French Sailor Alain Delord off Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the<a href=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Orion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1085\" title=\"Orion\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Orion-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> coast of Tasmania in Australia has been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>A cruise ship picked up Alain Delord on Sunday, said a spokesman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The yachtsman was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage when he ran into trouble on Friday, 500 nautical miles off Australia&#8217;s island state.<\/p>\n<p>The mast on his yacht broke in rough weather forcing him to abandon it.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Nick Bryant in Sydney says Australian authorities were able to drop food, water and a survival suit to the 63-year-old, but his location was too remote for a helicopter rescue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Delord was uninjured and said to be in reasonable spirits, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise ship <em>Orion<\/em> was on its way back from the Antarctic when it answered the distress call, making a 50-hour diversion to pick him up.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced French sailor&#8217;s personal website shows that he was following the route taken by the Vendee Globe race, but was not a registered competitor.<\/p>\n<p>The race, founded by French sailor Philippe Jeantot in 1989, is held every four years.<\/p>\n<p>Competitors race from France and then around the world in the seas around the Antarctic.<\/p>\n<p>It is seen as a test of human endurance.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 Frenchman Thierry Dubois and Briton Tony Bullimore were both rescued by the Australian navy after running into trouble in the Southern Ocean during the race.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-21108982\">www.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-news-and-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}