Rescued French sailor arrives in Australia
An Antarctic cruise ship that plucked a French sailor to safety after he spent three days adrift in the Southern Ocean docked in Hobart, Tasmania on Tuesday to return the yachtsman to dry land. Alain Delord was little more than an orange speck bobbing on four-metre waves when the cruise ship Orion spotted his life raft on Sunday evening.
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