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

Tropical cyclone is the catch-all term for the powerful, spinning storms that feed off warm oceans and the strength of which is determined by wind speeds. The strongest are known as hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Western Pacific and simply tropical cyclones in the South Pacific.

A Lithuanian ocean rower caught in damaging winds and huge waves triggered by a tropical cyclone has been rescued.

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,