Full story: Kevin Escoffier heroic rescue boat sunk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- The full story of what really happened 680 miles south west of Cape of Good Hope in the Vendee Globe 2020. Featuring Jean Le Cam, Kevin Escoffier and race director Jacques Caraes.
And Jean has truly proven that Yes We Cam!
Whatever position he ends up in - he's the true winner of Vendee Globe 2020 in my mind.
And to think he was rescued last time by the boat that sank this time
To me, Jean Le Cam is already the winner of Vendee Globe 2020.
Thanks for the subtitles. Wonderful heroic seamanship. Great team effort.
I wish we had such solidarity in the whole world. Congrats, great Job!
We do, for the most part. It shows up at weird times.
Guys, I'm glad this went well, but don't over romantisize this: every single skipper who deviated was explicitly ordered to do so. Probably they would have done it anyhow, but Jean had no option, point.
@@fabienh3943 Okay it is maritime law to do so and the race doesn't stop because one guy ends up in the sea. Well I can't think of any instance where it has at the moment, but when you are the one in the water you really appreciate the sacrifice of your fellow competitor makes when they come to your aid. You are fully aware of the effort it took them just to get to the start line in the first place. If you have ever lost anyone at sea and seen the effort people put into helping a total stranger, they aren't doing it because some stupid rule says they should.
Seconds to disaster!!!
What a magnificent effort! What an incredible story for Kevin Jean and everyone else. Congratulations to you all. Very scary story. Heroic
Magnifique seamanship and camaraderie. Bon voyages messieurs!
Bravery, skill and unselfish commitment, is all want from your fellow human being when the shit hits the fan .The solo sailor is a rare breed indeed.
You didn't listen to what this guy told, did you? Jean did...
A rescue in high seas...AT NIGHT! Amazing job!
Dingue ! Quelle histoire ! et que de chocs successifs ! Bonjour les émotions... Merci pour cette sacrée vidéo et un grand bravo à tous !
Beautifully done Sir, bravo!!
Chapeau boys, chapeau! Jean le Cam is the man...
Congratulations and huge respect to the rescuers. So happy for Kevin :)
Yes we Cam!
Time for the rule makers and designers to have a good look at exactly what they are putting out there. The boats are getting more and more extreme and it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. Kevin was very nearly lost. For me Jean le Cam has already won this race
Corum out, Charal already turned back and restarted. Hugo Boss out and now PRB. The boats are now gone over the line. It's crazy putting boats to sea with 50% more righting moment than the rigs can withstand!
@@daveoriordan1537 There is a word in the English language, "seaworthy". It seems to have been forgotten by some of the people involved in these ventures. You can set to sea in anything you want and I wouldn't stop you. However this is a race with rules
I'm no architect but I was surprised when we got a sight of the bow structure in Hugo Boss. Considering that it is slamming into waves at up to 40 knots, it seemed very lightweight indeed. Now PRB literally breaks in two, despite being reinforced for the race. I know someone who works in carbon fibre fabrication and once you get repetitive compression combined with torsion the properties are difficult to model. With LinkedOut limping on one foil, PRB, Corum and Hugo Boss out and Charal at the back of the fleet you've got to think they're getting something horribly wrong. It's easy to imagine a scenario where one of the skippers dies on one of these boats...
@@tullochgorum6323 How old a boat is PRB, is is at retrofit with the wings and hydrolics? Wikipedia says The current PRB, the fifth was launched in 2010. While sailing in the 2020-2021 Vendee Globe with french skipper Kevin Escoffier, reported issues with a valve at the starboard foil on the 22 november.
It reminds me of when the Volvo Ocean Race went from the VO70s to VO65s. The VO70s were fast but they were also incredibly fragile. The decision had to be made to move to a one design boat which was more robust to survive getting beat up in the southern ocean and because it's one design, the designers wouldn't be sacrificing strength for speed.
PRB saved the King Jean few years ago. Today Jean saves PRB !
Yes absolutly but this time the ship is lost but sailor safe
Bravo Jean le Cam. Respect!
Great review of this amazing rescue. Yes...he could!
I guess we know who's buying the drinks when they hit port. Glad everyone is safe.
Bravo Jean le Cam - my hero - Well done Kevin - glad you are safe ..
Comme le disent certains, Jean Le Cam est déjà, quelque part, le vainqueur de ce Vendée Globe.
Yes we cam !
This is great news! Sailors coming to another's rescue! Beautiful!
Fantastic outcome to this freak boat breaking, Bravo Zulu to all concerned behind the scenes and especially to Jean Le Cam - a hero 👌👌
Awesome work! They are true lions of men!
Great story of survival on the edge of the earth.
Thank you
Bravo aux valeureux marins pour ce sauvetage héroïque!!!
Super description des évènements !! Pas facile tous ça !!!!
I don't get how these IMOCAs can be so structally unsound that they fall into pieces in a matter of seconds. Counting Alex's boat, this is the second that's gone out of competition within a few days. I guess Pip has the safest one, having turned 20 last year. Extremely well done by Jean le Cam, but also very lucky like any real hero! This was really touch and go and they have barely reached the Southern Ocean.
"Will you be back?" - I'm not sure I'd have been quite as polite!
Phenomenal. Well played by all. Godspeed.
I still want to hear from Kevin how his boat went down so fast. Folded? A 60ft carbon fiber boat folded?
J'ai tout suivi,bravo vous êtes des héros pour moi.à 4 heures j'ai vu que Kevin était sauvé, j'ai chialé. Je peux juste dire que vous êtes mes héros, c'est incroyable de se sortir d'un merdier pareil.bravo Monsieur Jean le cam et Merci pour votre sens de la vie.Et je pense que heureusement que Mr Escoffier n'était pas dans la banette , l'histoire n'aurai peut-être pas était la même.bravo. À toute l'organisation aussi
“I saw him. Kevin in his life raft. I told him I would be back and there is no need to rush things.” C’est la vie.
And par hazzard as the French say they immediately lost him. They should have made the attempt to pull him from the water as soon as they found him. I’ve saved a few distressed boats over the years. I’ve never told one. No rush buddy. We’ll be back
@@seabournewolf2298 @John Harmon Well no need to rush isn't a good traduction of what Jean le Cam said, what he said is " on va pas faire n'importe quoi" wich could be translated as we're not going to mess up. Adding it to the info said earlier of difficult weather condition and the fact they didn't knew yet the risk of drifting was so important, it is more to be understood as to risky to try a rescue at this moment.
Sorry if you had understood the video, I just thought the subtitles were not perfect on this part of the video and could led to misunderstood of what Jean le Cam really said.
Have a good day ( or night )
Sublime merci 👍
Ok that was very brave and heroic and selfless to rescue a fellow sailor in distress, but this is a single handed boat race, so now Mr. Cam has a passenger on board, isn't he automatically disqualified?
Geniale un vrai marin, fellicitations de tout mon coer
La légende des siècles, en 4'' il envoie un message, revêt sa combinaison, va chercher son radeau, le prépare, le met à l'eau...
Bravo Jean .un vrai Finistérien.Hugo boss broke a longitudinal girder. PRB broke the bow in two.are there structural problems on these ships ?
I don’t understand why he told him that he’ll be back instead of rescuing him straight away. The first time that he found him. Is there something I am missing?
Presumably the rescue boat was under full sail just to to the scene as fast as possible, and Jean didn't feel it was possible or safe to try to stop immediately. I'm sure the plan was to de-power the sails, get the motor started and approach Kevin in the raft slowly from downwind. Not being able to get the motor started immediately screwed up the plan.
Consider that even when Jean did come back later and threw him the flotation ring, it still pulled Kevin out of the life raft (it most likely has a sea anchor), but he was going slow enough that Kevin could pull himself onboard. If the boat had been going faster, it would have pulled Kevin out into the southern ocean, but he may not have been able to hang on.
Bravo les mecs !!!!
👍👍
Bravoo
Bravo to all involved HERO'S
Yes Jean can, and Jean did it !
super JEAN !!!!!!!!!!!! SANTO SUBITO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Outstanding!
La solidarité entre marins💪👍
It's the same in every class, from dinghy races, to ocean races.. Sailors come to the aid of others, with no second thought.
A most unforgiving mistress, enticing, alluring & gorgeous, with the darkest secrets.
Please do a follow up of this story. I assume KEVIN ESCOFFIER is still on the boat. Are there enough previsions for the two sailors to continue non stop? Can they be resupplied at sea from a boat out of Ushuaia without penalty?
3 days later he was picked up by a French navy vessel who also dropped off extra food to Le Cam to make up for the food eaten by his passenger! (it included fine pate') Le Cam continues to race...
hero king jean!!!
Well done!
Jean le Cam de Carmelide
Yes We Cam!!!!!!!
Lesson learned is to get the person the first time. You may not get another.
The true sailor
Les Ais fonctionnent en VHF ( 162 mhz)
High risk junkies -- I have little sympathy for them. Skiing in avalanche conditions, spelunking in unexplored caves, climbing high peaks, or sailing carbon fiber boats in Antarctic waters -- its all the same disease. They leave behind wives and children, and many of these risk addicts never return. Is it heroic? No. Its foolhardy. I do have sympathy for the brave people who have to try to rescue them. Mountain rescue services, fire service rescue personnel, helicopter rescue specialists, and the navies of the world, particularly the Australian navy, which has gone out countless times in impossible weather, to find and pluck these misguided sailors from the sea. The biggest challenge of all, is to lead an "ordinary" life, but that is something which risk addicts avoid like the plague.
Thinking of Alex's problems... Are noses an ever greater weak spot? Didn't Boris Herrmann recently muse about the vurtues of a scow-type bow?
Wonder if the boat hit something, or was between troughs at the wrong moment? ... amazing to me that the sailors all know that something like this can happen ... their boat breaking in two! ... and loss of life is very real, all too easy to happen ... fortunately, not this time!
So Boss broke the bow, this one folded in half: I'm going to go out on a limb and say maybe the IMOCA 60 as it stands now isn't up to the task of ocean racing. This is how the sport gets a bad name. It's not supposed to be a test of “the luckiest sailor on the planet”, it's supposed to be “the best sailor on the planet”.
Being a Clipper round the world sailor myself
Bravo ! Des hommes des vrai !
Malgré toutes ces explications et même si on a navigué au large sur des voiliers de "plaisance" on a peine à imaginer ce que ces deux là ont dû vivre dans des conditions extrêmes de vent de mer et de température ( ils sont dans les 40èmes)
C'est autre chose que de faire un empannage en 420 sur le lac de Serre-Ponçon ...
Bateau il a coulé Jean le cam
#KingJean 😍😎👍
Emoca sunk????
I counted 217 “eerrrs”.
Unforgivable that the Yatch would Fail Structurally like that.
Not Good enough Vendee.
Great rescue. However: Memories from Formula 1, high speeds, drivers in danger, materials failing, spectators enjoy.
Ca s'arrose !
🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃
What a great account of this rescue
All great sailors searching and prepared to assist
Jean Le Cam taking no chances of losing him twice
Very exciting and great outcome
Indeed! So happy Cam persevered and was relieved immensely upon seeing him the 2nd time! Thanks to God for all parties being safely aboard. 🙏🏻👏🏻
Bless the brave sailors, the rescuer and the rescued: that is how to live a good life, with courage and consideration for others. Well done!
well said. sailing community have this solidarity i don't see in other sports.
Great efforts by all the sailors and perseverance by Jean Le Cam! Can't imaging who would give this a thumbs down.
People click thumbs down because they agree it’s a bad situation. Even though it’s a well made video.
Absolutely outstanding!!
Bravo le cam !!!!! Les hommes !!!!
Superb Seamanship Jean, outstanding result. Safe is the sailor safe from the sea. Tumeke indeed. On On the race continues. God speed Jean , your in the record books for this one neh. UBIQUE
Awesome effort everyone! Great job! So happy to hear a tragedy was averted. It will make Alex reassess his misfortunes I think.
Bless Jean le Cam, patron saint of those in the sea. Brilliant Jean. Clak, clak, clak!!
Bravo Le Cam d'avoir rendu la pareille
quelle idée de diffuser Titanic la veille :) (je me permets l'humour l'issue étant heureuse pour Kevin Escoffier)
J'y avait pas pensé...le pauvre Kevin, c'etait pas du cinéma pour lui...😅
PTL
Bah nickel, on me dit vas y j'y vais et la jvois Kevin et jlui dit bah attends tranquille je reviens et on boit lapero , ah je reviens il était plus la... Ah bah attend on va pas en rester là .
Jlui dis attends on attend le jour et on boit un coup...
Did they ever find out what caused the catastrophic damage to the boat? Did he hit a submerged object, such as a shipping container? Or was it some kind of structural failure due to previous overstressing?
All this problem will be in the past when starlink is fully online right? That guy can even post on reddit while waiting for rescue.
Bravo le cam you are the best. Good luck clac clac clac
Great team, great sailors!
Bonsoir
Nous vous remercions pour ce video.
Merci au Ciel pour ce merveilleux sauvetage.
Qu'ce que ont fait les autres skippeurs deroutes?
Merci pour une reponse.
București, România
Que muestra de compañerismo y lealtad a los hombres de Mar. Mis mas sinceros respetos y gratitud. Muy buena la información de lo acontecido.
Amazing! In 2009 it was Jean who got rescued...
Super Heros❤️
Shoutout to EPIRBS!
Something is wrong in the rules of this sport though! There should be a yellow flag kind of situation, like in motor sports, when things like this occur. Even if it is obvious for the closest participants to start an immediate search, shouldnt there be a heave to or such for the others? With boats that average 15 kts, a 12 hour search could kill the race. Not a very fair set of rules in my book!
hero
sacré bonhomme ce Jean ! quel sens de la mer ...!
This rescue so difficult. Very concerning boat construction has been compromised for speed
And just like that, his boat folded in half like a piece of paper.
To me Jean already won this edition of VdG
Wow!!
Amazing seamanship !!!
Amen!
Fantastic 🇬🇧
Bravo Kevin, Bravo Jean. Great sea rescue!