adrift at sea.

A 69-year-old man sailing alone from Gandia, Spain, toward Guardamar del Segura disappeared in mid-January 2026. The official air-sea search ran for five days and was called off. Eleven days after he went missing, a Frontex patrol aircraft spotted his drifting yacht far off the Algerian coast, and he was recovered alive and in good health. The cause of the drift was never established.