to damage). It definitely freaked me out and I was like ‘well, I'm done.’». Sailing accident On October 29, 2011, she fell from her boat in the middle of the night off Cap Corse. By chance, she had with her a headlamp and a waterproof mobile phone. Arthaud managed to call her mother who then called her brother. He then alerted the CROSS (the French Coast Guard) and three hours and twenty minutes after her distress call, she was located using the geolocation of her mobile phone. Conscious but in a state of hypothermia, she was airlifted to a Bastia hospital, from which she was released the following day. Private life In 1993, Florence Arthaud gave birth to Marie, born of her relationship with Loïc Lingois, a professional sailor. In 2005, she married Éric Charpentier, but the union dissolved very quickly. She was the companion of the navigator Philippe Monnet. In her autobiography, published in 2009, Arthaud is forthcoming about her difficult times, of the alcohol which cost her her drivers license in 2010, and of the defection of the sponsors which aborted all of her projects. She found comfort with the association ‘The wheel turns,’ which helps celebrities who are in trouble. Other activities In 2014, she took part in Sea Shepherd's "GrindStop" campaign against pilot-whale whaling in the Faroe Islands. Her autobiography, Un vent de liberté, prefaced by Olivier de Kersauson, was published in 2009. Before her death, Florence Arthaud was working on a race project reserved for women, the first edition of which was to take place in the Mediterranean during the summer of 2015. The year before her death, she worked with the writer and playwright, Jean-Louis Bachelet, to write new memoir. She had completed the book, titled Tonight, the Sea is Black (Cette nuit, la mer est noire), which was released by her father’s publishing house on March 19, 2015, shortly after her death. Death On Monday March 9, 2015, Arthaud was killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina during filming of the television reality show, Dropped. Nine other people were killed in this accident, including French swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine. The other victims were the two Argentinian pilots and five French members of the production team, Adventure Line Productions. In accordance with her last wishes, Arthaud was cremated. Some of her ashes are buried on the Île Sainte-Marguerite, opposite Cannes, while