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Urgent: Chinese sailor Guo Chuan not on board

Xinhua, October 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

Rescuers sent by the U.S. Coast Guard didn't see Chinese sailor Guo Chuan on his boat, Guo's shore team said on Thursday.

The Coast Guard used a helicopter to drop rescuers on Guo's trimaran floating on the Pacific Ocean.

Guo was last heard just after 15:00 Tuesday Beijing time when his boat sailed 900 nautical miles off the west of Hawaii. All attempts to contact the sailor had failed.

The 51-year-old Guo was trying to set a solo non-stop trans-Pacific world record from San Francisco to Shanghai. Endit