A 24-year-old French woman was on Tuesday rescued after having spent more than 36 hours desperately clinging to her drifting paddle board amid stormy seas in the English Channel.
Clémence Lapeyre, who was visiting her uncle in the seaside town of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in Normandy, disappeared after setting out to sea late Sunday evening.
"It was a beautiful night and she decided to go out for a moonlight paddle without telling us," the woman’s uncle, Christophe Rémy-Nérys, told French news channel BFMTV.
"That’s why we didn’t realise until the next day that she had gone missing," he said.
The family alerted rescue services on Monday but the woman wasn’t found until Tuesday afternoon, when passengers on a Belgian fishing boat discovered her drifting some 45 kilometres north of the city of Le Havre. The port city of Le Havre is at least 100 kilometres east of her point of departure.
"She had fallen off the board at least three times and managed to climb back on. She had lost her glasses and her paddle," Rémy-Nérys said. Rescuers described Lapeyre’s survival as a "miraculous" because of the rough seas she’d had to face during the ordeal.
Lapeyre was admitted to a hospital in Fécamp, near Le Havre, on Tuesday evening, where she was treated for dehydration and exhaustion.
Bütün xəbərlər Facebook səhifəmizdə
USD
EUR
GBP
RUB