AKIPRESS.COM - Most people spend the day after Christmas relaxing with their families. But one man began a journey across the Atlantic in a barrel. 

Navigator Jean-Jacques Savin, of France, is currently floating somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean in nothing more than a bright orange barrel. He hopes to reach the Caribbean in three months, by the end of March, propelled only by ocean currents.

"The goal? Maybe to prove that I've still got it." Savin told the AFP news agency.

He hopes the currents will transport the barrel from his starting point in the Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, to somewhere in the Caribbean. He doesn't know exactly where he'll end up, but he's hoping for a French island such as Martinique or Guadalupe.