After his boat capsized, a 62-year-old had to endure 16 hours in the icy Atlantic water. The Spanish sea rescue service speaks of a rescue operation “on the edge of the impossible”.

A 62-year-old Frenchman experienced the nightmare of every ocean sailor in the Atlantic: After his twelve-meter-long boat “Jeanne Solo Sailor” capsized off the north-west coast of Spain on Monday, he had to wait 16 hours in icy water and in an air bubble for rescue. which got smaller every hour.

“When I look today at how destroyed the boat is, I don’t know how I survived,” Laurent Camprubi told the newspaper “La Voz de Galicia” on Thursday.