About two nautical miles off the French Atlantic coast, a German sailor was killed in a fatal accident. The man went overboard in heavy seas. According to the news agency AFP, he came from Hannover.
The man was traveling with his wife on a ten-meter-long sailboat and crashed in the night of Friday at the height of the place Soulac-sur-Mer northwest of Bordeaux in the sea, as the French Marine Prefecture for the Atlantic and French media reported ,
The sailor's wife was injured, but could be brought to safety. Even a rescuer, who fell into the water, suffered injuries.
The woman had alarmed after the fall of the distress coordination center in Bremen. According to the prefecture, the French authorities deployed three helicopters and two ships. The man could only be recovered dead.