Aurimas Mockus was reportedly attempting to travel from San Diego to Brisbane when he got caught in Tropical Cyclone Alfred off the coast of Australia.

An Australian navy ship rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. Aurimas Mockus had been stranded for three days in the Coral Sea nearly 500 miles off the coast of Australia’s Queensland state.

An adventurer who tried to row across the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia has been rescued just days before he reached his final destination. Lithuanian rower Aurimas Mockus sounded a distress signal late on Friday after he was stranded by a cyclone,