Rescue in the Southern Ocean

In the 1996 Vendee Globe challenge, Bullimore's world turned upside down, literally, when his yacht, the Exide Challenger, hit a submerged object as it flew down the face of a cresting swell in the inhospitable Southern Ocean. He survived 4 days huddled beneath the hull of his upturned yacht in freezing Southern Ocean waters with just a bar of chocolate and a little water. The rescues of Vendee Globe yachtsmen Tony Bullimore, Thierry Dubois and Raphael Dinelli are among the greatest sea dramas ever witnessed in peacetime. This account captures the epic story of their rescues in words and pictures, filed as the events unfolded.