Sail-World.com : Rescue of Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) underway - Vendee Globe
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Rescue of Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) underway - Vendee Globe |
At 00h26 GMT Jean Le Cam informed his shore team that he was in distress two hundred miles west of Cape Horn.
Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) was able to telephone his shore team in France to inform that he was experiencing serious difficulties on board his monohull. It was possible that he was capsizing, as the phone went dead at that point. The boat was located at 56° 17’ S and 73° 46’ W, or around 200 miles West of Cape Horn. At the time, the weather conditions were generating 25-knot westerly to south-westerly winds with stronger gusts.
Immediately the MRCC (International Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) was alerted and Vincent Riou (PRB) and Armel Le Cléac’h (Brit Air) have changed course to go to the zone where Jean Le Cam was sailing.
They should reach this zone at around 13h (GMT). The Sarsat-Cospas distress beacon on the monohull was triggered at 01h40 (GMT).
LATEST UPDATE:
A cargo ship and a plane are on their way to the area to intervene as quickly as possible.
Chile is three hours behind GMT: in Punta Arenas, the sun goes down at 22h (local time, or 01h GMT) and comes up at 05h30 (local time, or 08h30 GMT). It was therefore dark where Jean Le Cam was located (200 miles west of the Horn) when his distress beacon was triggered at 01h40 (GMT).
The MRCC (Intrnational Maritime Rescue Co-Ordination Centre) contacted a cargo ship 65 miles from the position of VM Matériaux, as identified by the Sarsat-Cospas beacon: the ship is expected to reach the area at around 10h30 GMT. A Chilean spotter plane is being prepared to head for the zone at daybreak, at around 08h30 (GMT).
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by Vendee Globe media
8:46 AM Tue 6 Jan 2009 GMT
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