US adventurer who twice tried 'walk' to Bermuda arrested
A Florida man who twice attempted a crossing to Bermuda inside an inflatable bubble has once more has his seafaring plans scuppered by the US Coast Guard.
Reza Baluchi, an Iranian-born extreme adventurer, tried the 1,000 mile journey to Bermuda inside his homemade “hydropod” in 2014 and 2016, despite being warned by authorities that the craft was unsuitable for the crossing.
Mr Baluchi was threatened with criminal damages for breaching orders not to attempt to reach the island in an unsafe vessel.
He was arrested in 2021 after another rescue while trying to ride from Florida to New York, when the craft instead drifted 30 miles south.
The BBC reported yesterday that Mr Baluchi had been arrested again after another Coast Guard rescue 70 miles into a planned transatlantic journey to London.
Mr Baluchi reportedly threatened suicide and claimed to have a bomb on board before he surrendered on September 1.
He faces more charges for violating the Coast Guard order that he was setting out on a “manifestly unsafe” vessel.
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