Italian Route du Rhum sailor with suspected chest injury brought ashore at Horta
Azores GuideA lifeboat escorted the solo racer's undamaged yacht into the port of Horta, and an ambulance took him to hospital on Faial.
The Portuguese Navy coordinated the rescue of a 35-year-old Italian sailor taking part in the Route du Rhum solo race. The operation was run from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Ponta Delgada (MRCC Delgada).
According to Açoriano Oriental, the alert came when the boat was about 280 nautical miles, roughly 519 kilometres, west of the island of Flores, with a report that the sailor had a suspected chest injury.
The yacht was undamaged. The team's support boat met it, and the lifeboat SR34 of the Horta lifeboat station escorted it into the port of Horta, where the sailor was brought safely from the anchorage to the quay. An ambulance of the Horta volunteer fire brigade took him to hospital.
RTP Açores reported that the boat was the Allagrande60 and that the operation ran from Friday 6 November until the early hours of Sunday 8 November. The Horta command of the Maritime Police took statements from the boat's team.
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