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Sporting Witness: The yachting rescue that gripped the world

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The yachting rescue that gripped the world

24/12/2020 GMT

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Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race

Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race.

British sailor Pete Goss was taking part in the Vendee Globe single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1996 when he received a distress call from another participant. French sailor Raphael Dinelli was 160 miles away in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica – but Pete Goss went back through hurricane force winds to rescue him.

Photo: Vendee Globe round-the-world race yacht "Aqua Quorum" carrying rescued French sailor Raphael Dinelli and British sailor Peter Goss off the southern coast of Tasmania 07 January. (Photo credit STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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