00:00 Alain Collat, who would have been 80 years old that Saturday, disappeared at sea on November 16, 1978 off the coast of Assor in Portugal, on the first route of the Rome.
00:19 The mystery of his disappearance is still intact.
00:28 Alain Collat would have been 80 years old today. But, on November 16, 1978, on the first route of the Rome, the skipper disappeared off the coast of Assor, in Portugal.
00:43 Last trace of the navigator, this radio message, broadcast on Radio Monte Carlo, his spawn does not go out for the race, I am in the eye of the cyclone, there is no more sky, everything is amalgamated, there are only mountains of water around me.
00:57 A last radio exchange with his wife would also have been intercepted on November 17.
01:08 In the days and weeks that followed this disappearance, research has been undertaken.
01:13 But no trace of the Manurewa, the skipper's boat, was found by the four maritime patrol planes that flew over a large area of the Atlantic, 2 million km2 in total, for about twenty days, 400 hours of flight in total.
01:33 The mystery still remains and still on December 27, 1978, the Ministry of Defense officially announced the end of research.
01:41 But, two months later, his brother Jean-François Collat, who has already sailed with him, considers that this disappearance is not absolutely certain.
01:53 He maintains that Alain Collat could have drifted aboard his lifeboat.
02:00 Then many rumors about this affair are born.
02:05 The most likely hypotheses, shock with a cargo, disintegration of the structures of a boat built in aluminum, are dismissed by public opinion.
02:20 Place then to the suicide thesis. Others think that the skipper would have redone his life on a deserted island because of the big debts he had contracted for the construction of the monocoque.
02:31 But in 2014, the initial hypotheses resurface.
02:38 Because we learn through some close friends of Alain Collat that the sailboat was strongly weakened before the race.
02:48 Many welds were flawed, especially at the link arms, and the hull and floaters were subject to water leaks.
02:56 However, let us remember that nothing has returned from the depths of the ocean.
03:04 So we still don't know what really happened, and if this disappearance is linked to the boat's fragility as the skipper's relatives advance.
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