{"id":16227,"date":"2011-12-15T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16227"},"modified":"2011-12-15T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:33:44","slug":"boat-sinks-in-rowing-race-to-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/boat-sinks-in-rowing-race-to-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Boat Sinks In Rowing Race To The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16233\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16233\" title=\"saur-fancett\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/saur-france.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/saur-france.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/saur-france-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from TeamTom&#39;s Facebook page showing Tom Sauer, left, and Tom Fancett before their translatlantic attempt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two transatlantic rowers have been rescued from a life raft in the middle of the ocean after their small boat apparently sank in rough seas.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Sauer and Tom Fancett were rescued by a cruise ship after 10 hours in the raft, almost 500 miles south west of the Canary Islands, coastguards said.<\/p>\n<p>Briton Fancett and Sauer, who has dual Dutch\/Russian nationality, left the Canary Islands on December 4 to row to the Bahamas in the 2011 Atlantic Ocean Rowing Race.<\/p>\n<p>Falmouth Coastguard, who co-ordinated the rescue, said the emergency beacon from the men&#8217;s boat, 8.6 metre PS Vita, was triggered at around 7.54pm on Tuesday, 480 miles from the Canary islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two transatlantic rowers were rescued after their small boat sank in rough seas as they attempted to row from the Canary Islands to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96,79,70],"class_list":["post-16227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boats","tag-marine","tag-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}