COLLISION WITH UFO<\/p>\n
(February 3, 2011; Day 13) – At 2:00 am (Paris time), while sailing at a<\/p>\n
speed of 37 knots south of the 40th parallel, the 131-foot trimiran Banque<\/p>\n
Populaire V hit an unidentified floating object during their Jules Verne<\/p>\n
Trophy Record attempt. Under the shock, part of the crash box drift – part<\/p>\n
fuse protecting the immersed part – was broken, requiring Pascal Bidegorry<\/p>\n
and his crew to heave to for an hour to go account of the damage.<\/p>\n
“Tonight, we immediately felt the shock but the Maxi Banque Populaire V did<\/p>\n
not stop,” said Bidegorry. “However, we made the decision to halt the<\/p>\n
progress of the boat and ride the sails. But in the dark night, it was not<\/p>\n
easy to realize the damage.”<\/p>\n
Further confirmation of the damage has not been available. The immediate<\/p>\n
plan for the crew was to limit their speed to 25 knots and seek out a calm<\/p>\n
region so that they can better review the situation in daylight. The team<\/p>\n
is currently at the 45 degree south latitude, southwest of the African<\/p>\n
continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COLLISION WITH UFO (February 3, 2011; Day 13) – At 2:00 am (Paris time), while sailing at a speed of 37 knots south of the 40th parallel, the 131-foot trimiran Banque Populaire V hit an unidentified floating object during their Jules Verne Trophy Record attempt. Under the shock, part of the crash box drift – … Continue reading BUMP IN THE NIGHT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[2453],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banque-populaire","tag-banque-populaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}