The Atlantic is an ocean where large animals such as sharks or whales live. There are also ships or liners that sail from America to Europe, or vice versa. But a few days ago, the US Coast Guard who were aboard the ship Valiant were speechless with what their eyes saw and had never imagined before: a man named Reza Baluchi who was sailing these waters inside a gigantic hamster wheel and who wanted get to London from the North American country on this “boat”.
An event that occurred last Saturday, August 26. The US Coast Guard was sailing about 110 kilometers east of Tybee Island when they saw the man sailing in these conditions. Thus, they were forced to arrest Baluchi, 44 years old and from Florida, not per se for sailing, since it is not a crime, but for trying to make “a very unsafe trip that put his own health at risk,” according to They explain the police reports and collect Iflscience.
The boat itself, a giant hamster wheel made by Baluchi himself, was shaped like a ball, and he had developed it to “cross the Atlantic Ocean” and undertake a journey of thousands of kilometers alone, since this “transport” was designed to “walk on water” and has compartments that are used to store Baluchi belongings.
Reza Baluchi, the man who tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the US to the UK with a giant hamster wheel
“Crews from the United States Coast Guard’s Seventh District ended Mr. Reza Baluchi’s manifestly unsafe voyage and rescued him from his improvised hydropod boat – as he called the hamster wheel he made – about 60 nautical miles from the coast of Georgetown, before the passage of Hurricane Idalia,” explains the Coast Guard, which confirms that they handed Baluchi over to the police on September 1 and are now collaborating to file charges for “alleged criminal conduct.”
Baluchi was not unknown to the Coast Guard. On more than one occasion, he had attempted to make this trip and on all of them he had been detained by the authorities, and even once had to be towed ashore by a guard ship. According to The New York Times, in 2021 he was carrying a similar boat and had equipped it with a satellite phone, solar panel, wetsuits, a filtration system, and a supply of granola and noodles.
“I will never give up on my dream,” said this man, speaking to Fox 35. “I get stopped four or five times, but I never give up. My goal is not only to raise money for the homeless, for the Coast Guard, for the Police Department and raise money for firefighters. They are in public service, they do it for safety and they help other people.
2023-09-11 03:30:07
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