Young Taiwanese Explorer Antarctic Journey Ends With Footage Theft
Huai-Pu Chen, an adventurous sailor from Taiwan, completed a journey across the Southern Atlantic and Southern Ocean near Antarctica in May. He's now reported that his footage has been stolen from a hostel he stayed at in London and is asking the public for help. He says the storage drives contain his only copies of scientific data and observations from his journey.
Title: Taiwan Explorer’s Ice-Cold Robbery
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Young sailor’s Southern Ocean journey ends with theft
REPORTER:
23-year old sailor Huai-Pu Chen just completed a months-long journey around the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean only for his equipment containing footage of the journey to be stolen.
Huai-Pu Chen (RYA YACHTMASTER):
From here, our expedition begins. Not by engine. But by wind. A small sailing vessel will sail 7,000 kilometers across one of the most hostile oceans on Earth.
REPORTER:
That’s video from just before Chen set sail from the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Although he kept written logs, he says the missing equipment contains irreplaceable records of the Antarctic and his journey. Chen is the youngest Asian ever to receive the Yachtmaster designation after completing a journey across the North Atlantic in a wind-powered boat last year.
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Title: Taiwan’s Young Ocean Explorer
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Journey across South Atlantic and Southern Ocean ends with robbery
REPORTER:
An ice-cold robbery. 23-year old sailor Huai-Pu Chen just completed a months-long journey around the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean only for his hard drives containing videos and photos of the journey to be stolen.
REPORTER:
Chen is the youngest Asian ever to receive the Yachtmaster designation after completing a journey across the North Atlantic in a wind-powered boat last year. This time, Chen sailed 7,000 kilometers from the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Although he kept written logs, he says the hard drives contain irreplaceable records of the Antarctic and his journey.
