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Jean-Jacques Savin: Frenchman sets off to cross Atlantic in a barrel
BBC ^ | 27 Dec 2018 | BBC

Posted on 01/01/2019 12:56:58 PM PST by Theoria

A Frenchman has set off to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel-shaped orange capsule, using ocean currents alone to propel him.

Jean-Jacques Savin, 71, left El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands and hopes to reach the Caribbean in as little as three months.

His reinforced capsule contains a sleeping bunk, kitchen and storage.

He will drop markers along the way to help oceanographers study Atlantic currents.

Updates on the journey are being posted on a Facebook page and the latest message said the barrel was "behaving well".

In a telephone interview with AFP news agency, he said: "The weather is great. I've got a swell of one metre (3ft) and I'm moving at 2-3km/h... I've got favourable winds forecast until Sunday."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; atlantic; canaryislands; caribbean; driftwood; elhierro; frenchman; godsgravesglyphs; jeanjacquessavin; navigation; oceaniccurrents; rolloutthebarrel; spain; thorheyerdahl; travel
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To: Theoria

Changing the lyrics from

“We all live in a yellow submarine”

To

“This guy lives in an orange bobber”


21 posted on 01/01/2019 1:48:16 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Theoria

Three Wise Men of Chelm
Went to Sea in a barrel
Had the barrel been stronger
My story would be longer.


22 posted on 01/01/2019 1:50:19 PM PST by golux
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

He’s gonna need beer or dramamine


23 posted on 01/01/2019 1:50:22 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: EEGator

You’re telling me!

I got stalked by one, once.

Just when I thought he was going to eat me, he goes, “Tag, you’re it.”


24 posted on 01/01/2019 1:51:31 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Theoria

That’s not your run-of-the-mill barrel!


25 posted on 01/01/2019 1:56:38 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


26 posted on 01/01/2019 1:56:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Rummyfan
The only barrel I have been around.


27 posted on 01/01/2019 2:01:42 PM PST by xp38
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To: blueunicorn6

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/25/florida.seaworld.death/index.html


28 posted on 01/01/2019 2:02:13 PM PST by EEGator
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To: blueunicorn6

Were I was raised the land was so flat you could watch your dog run away from home for three days!!


29 posted on 01/01/2019 2:07:33 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Flick Lives
potential attacks by orca whales...

Gonna need a bigger Barrel.


30 posted on 01/01/2019 2:18:53 PM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: EEGator

Tilikum.....

That’s the Whale bastard that was stalking me.

My wife and I went to a marine park near Victoria, British Columbia.

Not a huge park.

We were the first ones in the park that morning.

My wife broke immediately for the gift shop, so I thought I’d go look at the Killer Whales.

I walked up to the exhibit and I was the only one there.

There was nothing going on, so I walked over to the water.

They had a three foot tall aluminum fence to keep people from falling into the pool I guess.

I walked around the pool looking down to see where the whales were when I had this feeling that somebody was watching me.

I looked to my right, and there was Mr. Seal Eater looking at me like he hadn’t had breakfast yet.

I did the math in my brain and realized that that big SOB could jump up on the fence and grab me.

I did what all men in my shoes would have done.

I screamed and ran up the nearby bleachers hoping that Killer Whales only knew how to go up ramps and not steps.

I saw his act later.

He was jumping his length out of the water.

Tilikum eventually killed somebody at that park, and they were forced to shut down.

Tilikum was shipped to Orlando where he ended up at Sea World.

Biggest Killer Whale ever, I believe.

He killed a couple more people before he died.

I read that he died and I sent an e-mail to Sea World asking if I could have some sushi from old Tilikum so I could eat him when he wanted to eat me.

They won’t let me in Sea World, now.


31 posted on 01/01/2019 2:27:08 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Theoria

When I’m 71 I’ll find other ways to keep myself occupied instead of floating in an orange “dumpster” across the Atlantic for three months.


32 posted on 01/01/2019 2:43:33 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Theoria
Jean-Jacques Savin

...aka Bob.

33 posted on 01/01/2019 3:21:35 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

I hear an Irishman tried that too. In a drum of whiskey. He was well preserved.


34 posted on 01/01/2019 3:38:24 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: blueunicorn6

You deserve a bucket of clams for that one!


35 posted on 01/01/2019 3:44:27 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: I want the USA back

I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised if it already looks like the inside of a Slimed tire.


36 posted on 01/01/2019 3:45:54 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Theoria

As I suspected, it is the Titanic’s of barrels. Total luxury until it isn’t.


37 posted on 01/01/2019 3:58:14 PM PST by DAC21
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To: waterhill

So where does he do his business?
Yes, I read the article


38 posted on 01/01/2019 4:09:51 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: Flick Lives

“Orcas? Why would orcas attack this plywood barrel?”

Because they have him over a barrel.


39 posted on 01/01/2019 4:40:07 PM PST by moovova
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To: Theoria

If he makes it to Niagara Falls he is set.


40 posted on 01/01/2019 5:06:24 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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