Rescue British Kayaker, Flown In an Aerospatiale SA.365 Dauphin 2 helicopter to hospital after his dramatic rescue in the english channel

Aerospatiale SA.365 Dauphin 2

A British man who was left on a buoy for days after his kayak capsized was rescued by a Dutch fishing boat in the Channel.

The captain's girlfriend, Teunis de Boer, said she happened to see the kayaker waving frantically as his ship Madeleine passed by him.

"He's clearly in trouble," the captain told Dutch media.

The man was taken to a hospital by French authorities after being given water and a chocolate bar.

The play took place on Thursday morning in the Dover Channel, also known as the Pas de Calais, a few miles west of the French coast.

The captain said that as he was making sure he wasn't getting too close to the Colbert Nord's buoy, he suddenly noticed something moving above his head. "I took out his binoculars and saw a young man in a bathing suit waving like crazy."

They threw down British lifejackets and dragged them into the boat. "He was covered in bruises, scraped shells off the buoy and explained that he survived by eating small crabs and seaweed," De Boer told public broadcaster NOS. He was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia, so the crew wrapped him in blankets.

Evaluation process to helicopter

The crew of the cutter BL936072 'Madelaine' of shipping company De Boer & Zonen, rescued an English kayaker from a light buoy in the English Channel around 11 am.

A French Coast Guard helicopter soon arrived on the scene and transported the British to a hospital near Boulogne.

What's unclear is how long he'll survive clinging to the buoy. The captain of the fishing vessel said the man said he left Dover by kayak on October 15, 12 days before he was picked up.

France's maritime secretary for the Channel and North Sea said in a statement, however, that he left Dover about 48 hours ago.

The prefecture warns anyone planning to cross the strait of the risks involved in such an attempt, pointing out that conditions are often very dangerous, with more than 400 merchant ships passing through each day. I'm here.

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