22/06/2022
Congratulations to the French Sea Rescue Services (SNSM) for this rescue! 👏
A 63 yo man was out kayaking with a group when he became isolated and fell in the water, unable to get back on board his boat alone.
The SNSM, the police station as well as the civil security actively looked for him:
"We tried to locate him by putting all our canoeists around the gangway with binoculars, says the president of the station of Arzon - Port-Navalo, Dominique Samuel.
We also had our thermal camera, with a range of 800 meters. Very quickly, the helicopter of the police station told us they had spotted him. They guided us and we reached him within minutes."
➝ Whether you go out alone or in a group, consider equipping yourself with a DIAL (or any other alert beacon) so you can be more easily geolocalized and rescued if a problem occurs.
Read the story of this rescue on the Les Sauveteurs en Mer - SNSM website (in French): https://www.snsm.org/actualites/un-homme-tombe-de-kayak-sauve-de-justesse-par-la-snsm-dans-le-morbihan