“You’re just inside of it,” the other deputy said. Supporters had written messages on the steel and fins, such as "" and "This is epic."Īnother deputy asked Baluchi whether he sat in the bubble. It has fins to help push it through the water. The "vessel" is a steel circle ringed by orange flotation buoys. “The vessel itself poses concerns about navigational safety, stability and sea-worthiness,” Micallef wrote.īaluchi told the deputy that some of the safety equipment he needed had been stolen while his bubble was in St. That failed trip ended up with him receiving a civil penalty of $10,000 imposed by the Coast Guard sector in Miami, Micallef wrote.īaluchi faces several hazards in his bubble voyages, such as dehydration, starvation and hunger, Micallef wrote. Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist 1st Class David Micallef wrote in an email.īaluchi tried a similar voyage from South Florida in 2016. The Coast Guard is indeed aware of Baluchi.Īfter learning Baluchi had come ashore in Flagler County, the Coast Guard sector Jacksonville issued Baluchi an order requiring him to have an escort/support vessel, specific safety/navigation equipment, and a voyage plan prior to any future trip on the bubble, U.S. “He said he contacted you guys about, he does some kind of charity and he launched from St. “I’m out here with a giant, I don’t even know what to call this floating in the ocean that washed up on the beach,” Gaddie said. “I raise money for charity.” He added that he raises money to help the homeless.ĭeputy Gaddie called the Coast Guard, although only one-side of the conversation is audible.
“No, no, no, they know I do mission,” Baluchi said. The deputy asked if Baluchi had called to tell the Coast Guard he was in distress or some other reason. Gaddie asked whether Baluchi had contacted the U.S. “I’m going to New York,” Baluchi told deputy Gaddie, video of their meeting on the beach shows. He headed toward Daytona Beach but then turned north toward his ultimate destination. from Iran in 2002, told deputies he had set off from St. It was all Baluchi had, along with a determination to “run” to New York over the Atlantic Ocean in what he calls his “bubble.”īaluchi is a 49-year-old ultramarathoner who rolled ashore near 16th Road East in the Hammock within sight of the Hammock resort.īaluchi, who moved to the U.S. “Were you on a bigger vessel or this is all you have?” Deputy Kyle Gaddie asked. One of those questions was whether the hamster-wheel looking steel bubble bobbing in the surf upon the sand was the entirety of Reza “Ray” Baluchi’s watercraft. Frank Fernandez, The Daytona Beach News-JournalĪ Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy had lots of questions on July 24 for a man who floated ashore in the Hammock area in what appeared to be a hamster-wheel ringed with buoys.
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