IT RESCUES REALIZED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE AUSTRAL OCEAN
Alex Thomson and Mike Golding are safe and sound after the abandonment of Hugo Boss

24 of November of 2006. To 06:35 GMT this morning approximately, Mike Golding successfully completed the marine rescue of Alex Thomson. Both British landlords are safe and sound on board the ECOVER after the two hours of tension that lasted the rescue, conducted with the first light of the day, to 850 miles to the south of South Africa. The dramatic rescue was a very dangerous operation, mainly given the wild conditions of the Austral Ocean. The success of the rescue is test of the anger and the professionalism of both skippers, that completed the maneuver with a strong surge and winds of more than 25 knots. The navigator alone Golding, immensely experienced, and for who this one is his sixth circumnavigation to candle, described the key minutes of the rescue, affirming that there were “moments of very many fear.”
 
Shortly after 03:00 GMT, with the arrival of the dawn to this part of the ocean, in the middle of the anything, Alex Thomson took the motors of its Open 60 damaged Hugo Boss, and it went the boat ago of Mike Golding, ECOVER. Golding, that made contact last night with visual enemy with Thomson, had passed the hours watching the security of Alex from a safe distance. To 05:00 GMT approximately, Alex Thomson, with its suit of put survival, was already preparation to send to its life raft, to be transported, with a few properties, until the ECOVER. The adverse conditions demanded that Thomson moved away until a safe distance of Hugo Boss, so that the ECOVER could enter to gather the young navigator. Four attempts made lack until being able to raise Thomson on board the ECOVER, due to the problem and sea disturbance, of motor that undergoes Golding.
 
Golding related therefore the experience: “We decided not to make the crossing until this morning, at the moment at which it left the sun. We went to the been suitable point and the rescue was a little complicated. He was chilling, very dangerous. Although the wind was not very strong, 20-25 knots, and Alex was let take to the drift in the raft, which seems to me equally chilling. It knew that it was going to be a very complicated day. Even with the awning orange of the raft, not necestaba to go very far before breaking away from the visual enemy with Alex. In addition I had problems with the controls of accelerator of the motor and the safety pin broke itself when he tried to maneuver and then the gear has loosen, so the motor has become a space waste! In the end I was able to arrive at him with the motor. It took four attempts to me and I am very contented to have to him on board. I believe that my first words were: Welcome on board.”