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At 00h26 GMT Jean Le Cam informed his shore team that he was in distress two hundred miles west of Cape Horn.
 

Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) was able to telephone his shore team in France to inform that he was experiencing serious difficulties on board his monohull. It was possible that he was capsizing, as the phone went dead at that point. The boat was located at 56° 17’ S and 73° 46’ W, or around 200 miles West of Cape Horn. At the time, the weather conditions were generating 25-knot westerly to south-westerly winds with stronger gusts.
Immediately the MRCC (International Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) was alerted and Vincent Riou (PRB) and Armel Le Cléac’h (Brit Air) have changed course to go to the zone where Jean Le Cam was sailing: They should reach this zone at around 13h (GMT). The Sarsat-Cospas distress beacon on the monohull was triggered at 01h40 (GMT). The rescue services are preparing to intervene and the plan of action will be updated as information is received by the Race Directors. A special news flash will be issued at 06h GMT.
 

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