An incident report described the boat as a metal frame with enclosed buoys, manually powered by running.
Mr Baluchi told CNN that he set out from St. Augustine on Friday and planned to make his way out to the Gulf Stream, which would help propel him up the East Coast to New York.
He said he was making the trek because he wanted to raise money for first responder charities.
Mr Baluchi decided he had to turn back because he was having problems with his tracking system and his backup device was missing.
He ended up on the Palm Coast beach about 35 kilometres south of where he started, saying he could get new equipment in that location.
Adventurer s plan to walk on water to New York in a floating bubble ends on a Florida beach
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A viral social media panic prompted a response from the Flagler County Sheriff s Office on April 23.
The social media posts have stated falsely that a group of men had declared April 24 a National Rape Day in a TikTok video and that penalties for sexual crimes would be suspended on that date.
There is no holiday that legalizes sexual assault, and independent fact checkers at multiplenewsoutlets have found no evidence that the supposed original video existed in the first place. The rumor-checking website Snopes found that rumors about such a day have circulated online for years.
The FCSO issued a news release April 23 noting that TikTok itself had denied finding any evidence of such a video, and stating that the FCSO s Domestic Homeland Security Unit is aware of the social media posts.