{"id":30314,"date":"2018-03-28T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30314"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:56:40","slug":"lost-at-sea-volvo-sailor-john-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/03\/lost-at-sea-volvo-sailor-john-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost at Sea. Volvo Sailor John Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This report appears on the<\/em> CNN <em>website<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world of sailing is in mourning after a crewman in the\u00a0Volvo Ocean Race\u00a0was washed overboard and is presumed lost at sea.\u00a0Britain&#8217;s John Fisher &#8212; who is based in Adelaide, Australia &#8212; was sailing on the 70-foot <em>Team Sun Hung Kai\/Scallywag<\/em> in the Auckland, New Zealand to Itajai, Brazil leg of the prestigious around-the-world race when he went overboard in 35-knot winds and fierce seas Monday.\u00a0Despite an &#8220;exhaustive search&#8221; in &#8220;extremely challenging weather conditions,&#8221; his teammates were unable to recover the 47 year-old, who was on watch and wearing appropriate survival gear when the incident occurred 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/27\/sport\/sailor-overboard-volvo-ocean-race-missing-spt\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report appears on the CNN website. &#8220;The world of sailing is in mourning after a crewman in the\u00a0Volvo Ocean Race\u00a0was washed overboard and is presumed lost at sea.\u00a0Britain&#8217;s John Fisher &#8212; who is based in Adelaide, Australia &#8212; was sailing on the 70-foot Team Sun Hung Kai\/Scallywag in the Auckland, New Zealand to Itajai, Brazil leg of the prestigious around-the-world race when he went overboard in 35-knot winds and fierce seas Monday.\u00a0Despite an &#8220;exhaustive search&#8221; in &#8220;extremely challenging weather conditions,&#8221; his teammates were unable to recover the 47 year-old, who was on watch and wearing appropriate survival gear when the incident occurred 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn.&#8221;\u00a0 Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30314\/revisions\/30318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}