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Lucy Skoulding

Man survives 16 HOURS in capsized sailboat in the Atlantic thanks to air bubble

A man survived for 16 hours in an air bubble inside his capsized sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean.

The 62-year-old French man managed to survive all that time before being rescued by Spanish coastguard divers in what they described as an operation "verging on the impossible".

The 40-foot (12 metre) Jeanne SOLO Sailor sent out a distress signal at 8.23pm on Monday (August 1).

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