VLADIVOSTOK, January 28. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov, continuing a solo row across the Pacific Ocean from Chile to Australia, has been joined by a flock of flying fish accompanying the intrepid sailor "like an escort of honor", he reports.
In a radio message from his boat, Turgoyak, Konyukhov describes his impressions of the phenomenon “as a surrealistic picture featuring fish flying and waving wings”. “They have been looking at me, bewildered as well to see a man rowing and using his oars like wings,” he said of fellow travelers. These fish are able to jump five meters above the waves and cover 400 meters buoyed by the air stream.