71岁法国老人，坐桶漂流

A 71-year-old Frenchman has set off across the Atlantic Ocean in a large orange barrel, hoping to float to the Caribbean by the end of March. Jean-Jacques Savin left the Canary Islands, off the coast of west Africa, on Wednesday, in a sophisticated barrel-shaped capsule he spent months crafting.

He is traveling at "two or three kilometers an hour" and intends to (literally) barrel his way across the ocean with the help of currents alone, he told the AFP news agency in a telephone interview after setting off.

A porthole in his temporary home will provide much of his entertainment, allowing him to watch passing fish below, and Savin is dropping markers on his way to allow international marine observatory organization JCOMMOPS to study ocean currents.

作者：Rob Picheta

原文标题：Frenchman to float across the Atlantic -- in a barrel

原文发布时间：27 Dec. 2018

背景知识：

据外媒报道，一名今年71岁的法国人萨文，乘坐一个橙色的大桶出发了，他打算凭借这个自制的大木桶，能在明年3月底之前漂浮到加勒比海。萨文自制的漂流桶看起来像一个巨大的酒桶，在漂流桶里面有一个小厨房和单人床，以及一些存放杂物的空间。他在他的这个临时的家中开设了很多的窗户，这些窗户将为他带来大部分的娱乐，能使它观看到下面海中游动的鱼。萨文还在他漂流的途中投放很多的标记，以便国际海洋观测组织用来研究洋流。现在萨文已经在海上漂流了2天了，他在个人网页上告诉他的粉丝们，他的漂流桶到目前为止“表现得非常好”。