Recovery efforts ‘diminishing’ for missing yachtsman John Fisher

The 47-year-old British sailor fell overboard during the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race

John Fisher Volvo Ocean Race Team Sun Hung Kai Scallywag
Team Sun Hung Kai’s Scallywag heads out of Auckland on 18 March in the Volvo Ocean Race
(Image credit: Michael Bradley/AFP/Getty Images)

Organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race say a search and rescue operation continues after British yachtsman John Fisher was reported to have fallen overboard.

Fisher, 47 and from Southampton, is a member of Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag and the incident happened at 2.42pm yesterday, approximately 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn. According to the race control, Fisher was on watch at the time and “wearing survival equipment when he went overboard”. The remaining crew are reported safe.

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