The son of a transatlantic rower missing at sea for over a week has hired a private plane in a bid to find his father. Mr Adrian Belic made a mercy dash to Ireland from the US after his 62 year old father Mr Nenad Belic's vessel sent a distress signal 230 miles west of Valencia Island.
Yesterday the California-based son of the missing oarsman, who was attempting to cross the Atlantic when he disappeared, spent hours searching the ocean around the area of the distress signal. He boarded a private plane at Galway airport shortly after 2 p.m. "Relatives and friends at home have raised some money. I would beg people who are fishing off the coast to keep an eye out for my father's vessel. I am confident he is still very much alive for a number of reasons.
"Firstly there was no debris found around where the distress signal was made, secondly the buoyancy would be still in operation and he had bottled water on board. And finally my father would have known how near he was to land which would give him the will to live."