Nine crewmen from Team Vestas Wind were rescued after abandoning their 65-foot sloop that ran aground on a reef off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean during the Volvo Ocean Race.
The sailors will stay on the remote Ile du Sud, where there is a house and some facilities, race officials said late Saturday night. There were no injuries.
Danish-backed Team Vestas Wind was making plans with race officials on how to get the crew off the island and salvage the sloop.
U.S.- based Team Alvimedica was released to continue racing toward Abu Dhabi after dropping its sails and motoring within two miles of the damaged yacht in case it was needed to help with a rescue.
“I’m extremely relieved that every one of the nine crew members now are safe and that nobody is injured,” race CEO Knut Frostad said in a statement. “That has always been our first priority since we first learned about the grounding.