“To date we have no official confirmation from the Portuguese maritime authorities,” he wrote.
A Portuguese Navy statement on Sunday said the search for Savin’s boat began after a distress signal was sent shortly before midnight on Thursday. The search involved a naval corvette, three planes and several merchant ships, one of which found a waterproof bag with Savin’s documents inside, according to the statement.
They located the capsized boat in rough seas and managed to get it onto the Navy ship on Saturday. The search was later suspended and a warning was issued to the ships in the area warning of the possibility of finding the castaway.
“Since then there have been no further sightings or reports,” a navy spokeswoman said Monday.
Savin celebrated his 75th birthday at sea on January 14.
On January 19, he posted a message about problems with the solar charger of his water desalinator, but said he was “not in danger” as he was heading to the port of Ponta Delgada, in the Azores islands, with a good wind.
In 2019, Savin crossed the Atlantic in a barrel-shaped capsule, from Spain’s Canary Islands to the Caribbean. (Reporting by Andrei Khalip; edited in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valencia)
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