A Lithuanian rush has been rescued from the Queensland coast after it was caught in the monstrous winds and waves of a tropical cyclone.
Aurimas Mockus had problems about 740 km east of Mackay while trying a crossing of the Pacific Ocean of 12,000 km from San Diego to Brisbane in its solo rowing boat.
Hmas Choules, a landed ship of the Royal Navy of 16,000 tons of 16,000 tons, rescued Mockus on Monday morning.
He is back to the Australian coast after a two -day wait in the turbulent ocean waters due to the tropical cyclone Alfred, said the Maritime Security Authority of Australia (AMSA).
The Aurimas Mockus boat was forced to fight strong conditions in the Coral Sea. Fountain: Supplied / Defense Department
Mockus undertook the trip in October and was days after reaching its final destination after rowing about 70 nautical miles per day.
On Thursday he was preparing for the “maximum power” of the Cyclone, saying that he only needed to survive the next two days.
But the waves demonstrated too much when Ciclón Alfred began to intensify in the warm marine waters of coral to a category two system with constant winds of 95 km/h up to 130 km/h.
The system caused Swell to become multiple subway waves, which led Mockus to activate its emergency beacon on Friday night.
A search and rescue mission began with a Jet Challenger based in Cairns sent to find the rower that did not see Mockus on Saturday, but managed to contact the tired row.
AMSA communicated with Mockus through the rescue plane through an interpreter on Sunday.
The agency said the rush had not reported any important injury.
Mockus was trying to join a brief list of ocean rowers to make the Pacific Crossing only without stopping.
Brit Peter Bird was the first in 1983, followed by compatriot John Beeden in 2015 and the Australian Michelle Lee in 2023.
The Australian fellow Tom Robinson, who tried to become the youngest to achieve the feat, although with a break in the Cook Islands, spent 265 days at sea before being rescued from Vanuatu in 2023.
Queenslander’s boat, 24, overturned, leaving him naked to the helmet for approximately 14 hours before he was rescued by a cruise that made a diversion of 200 km.
