Jean-Jacques Savin, a former paratrooper, works on the construction of a barrel-shaped vessel that he used to float across the Atlantic Ocean. Rather, the barrel was completely at the mercy of the tossing ocean current, which very slowly was pushing it west. As the NOAA Twitter account later related on March 27, the 274-foot vessel had encountered 72-year-old French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin on an Atlantic crossing in a plywood barrel. (Georges Gobet/AFP)Madcap dashes across the Atlantic Ocean have long been a pursuit for daredevil adventurers. [A Frenchman is traversing the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel.

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2019 10:05 UTC