The elder passes the ocean for 4 months with one barrel

A Frenchman who has spent more than four months sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a giant barrel of orange has reached his Caribbean destination.

Jean-Jacques Savin left the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa on December 26, 2018 - going west to a barrel-shaped capsule he built himself. The 71-year-old spent the first four months of 2019 in his barrel, traveling about two miles per hour without a motorcycle. He surprised the natives when he came to the shore on the small Dutch island of Saint Eustatius, Caribbean, shortly after midnight last week. "Everything has an end ... Finally, here I am at the end of this adventure," he wrote on Facebook on Friday after breaking the ground for the first time this year. A diving center at St. Eustatius greeted Savinin, adding to Facebook that he was also given a hotel room on the island, which has a population of just 3,000. "Some wondered and wondered if they were arresting him," CNN told St Eustatius, Dorette Courtar, who saw that his barrel was pulled off by a crane. "Others, like me, were amazed by this journey and technology." The seventy-year-old was traveling alone on his handmade ship, which was about 10 meters long and 7 feet wide and includes a small kitchen and little bed and storage space. He fed himself with the fish caught by the ocean.