She died in a helicopter crash in the Argentine province of La Rioja while she was participating in the filming of the reality TV show, Dropped, along with other French athletes.

[3] However, following this exploit, she was unable to find funding to build a new trimaran, due to the real estate crisis from which her sponsor was suffering.

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.

[5] In 1993, Florence Arthaud gave birth to Marie, born of her relationship with Loïc Lingois, a professional sailor.

In her autobiography, published in 2009, Arthaud is forthcoming about her difficult times, of the alcohol which cost her her driver's license in 2010, and of the defection of the sponsors which aborted all of her projects.

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.

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 19 March 2015, ten days after her death.

On 9 March 2015, Arthaud was killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina during filming of the television reality show, Dropped.