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Urgent: U.S. Coast Guard's ships arrive at the site of Guo Chuan's vessel

Xinhua, October 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

The U.S. Coast Guard's ships have just arrived at the site of Guo Chuan's trimaran and will soon use a helicopter to drop rescuers onboard to look for the sailor, Guo's shore team said on Thursday.

Guo was last heard just after 15:00 Tuesday Beijing time when his trimaran sailed 900 nautical miles off the west of Hawaii, his team said.

A search aircraft, sent from Honolulu, found a sail in the water, broken off the vessel, but didn't see Guo on the deck. All attempts to contact the sailor have failed.

Guo was trying to set a solo non-stop trans-Pacific world record from San Francisco to Shanghai. Endit