A man has a big ball. He puts this ball on the water. He can walk in the ball and it moves.
The man wants to do something dangerous. He wants to walk from Florida to Bermuda then to Puerto Rico and back to Florida.
Coast guards from Florida look for the man. They find him. They tell him
to stop this trip, but he is stubborn. However, he later activates his
beacon. A helicopter comes to get him.
Difficult words: coast guard (group of people who help people in the
sea), stubborn (he does not want to change his mind), beacon (emergency
signal).
The man was found disoriented and asking for directions to Bermuda. The coast guards noticed that he stocked the ball only with water and protein bars, and they tried to make him abandon his trip. He didn’t want to give up in the beginning, but he activated his beacon on Saturday morning and the coast guard saved him.
The man is now safe and the rescue operation did not injure him.
Difficult words: stocked (something stocked is prepared somewhere), abandon (stop), beacon (SOS signal).
This video footage shows the moment a man who attempted to run around
the Bermuda Triangle in a hydro-bubble, is rescued off the coast of
Florida, after becoming exhausted.
Reza Baluchi had planned a death-defying 'zorbing' trip across the sea
to Bermuda, then Puerto Rico and back to southern Florida. US Coast
Guard officials set out to rescue him on October 4th after they received
reports of a middle aged man who was missing.
Reza was reportedly found disoriented inside the hydro-bubble and was
understandably asking for directions to Bermuda. The coast guard tried
to convince Baluchi to abandon his 3,500-mile trip after noticing the
bubble was only stocked with water and protein bars, but an adamant Reza
refused to leave.
The endurance-runner stressed that he prepared for the journey for two
years and wanted to continue. Finally, after activating his locating
beacon on Saturday morning, he was hoisted aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk and
flown to Florida for a medical examination.
Reza is now safe and there were no reports of any injuries during the rescue operation.
Difficult words: attempt (try), Bermuda Triangle (an area of water
between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico), exhaust (to be very tired),
death-defying (very dangerous), reportedly (according to what some
people say), convince (to make somebody think something and then do
something), abandon (leave), stocked (full), adamant (he did not want to
change his mind), endurance (the ability to endure or suffer
something), beacon (emergency signal), hoist (lift).
