An Australian warship has rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who ran into a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California.

A rower on a 7,500-mile solo trip across the Pacific Ocean had to be rescued by an Australian warship Monday after getting caught in a terrifying tropical cyclone. Aurimus Mockus, 44, who set off from California in October,

Aurimas Mockus had been adrift for three days off the coast of Queensland after rowing nonstop from San Diego.