Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard District 14 Hawaii
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The U.S. Coast Guard deployed two airplanes and two ships in search of missing Chinese sailor Guo Chuan on Tuesday, October 25. The Coast Guard found Guo’s ship, the 97-foot super trimaran “Qingdao China”, drifting near Honolulu with no one on the deck.
Guo went missing west of Hawaii during his attempt to break the record for a solo crossing of the Pacific. The 51-year-old sailor’s ground navigation team had not heard from him since Tuesday, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Guo, who holds a world record for a 137-day solo non-stop circumnavigation in a 40-foot yacht, left San Francisco on October 18 and had aimed to reach Shanghai within 20 days. The current trans-Pacific speed record of 21 days is held by the crew of Italian yacht Maserati VOR70.
