Blind sailor, supporter rescued

TOKYO, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (2nd from front, R) and his supporter and newscaster Jiro Shimbo (front) get off a rescue flying boat at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atsugi Base in Kanagawa Prefecture on June 21, 2013. The pair were rescued earlier in the day by the MSDF in the Pacific off northeastern Japan after their small yacht was flooded with seawater. They had left a port in northeastern Japan on June 16, 2013, in a bid to cross the Pacific to San Diego, California.