A sailboat with three people on board broke its anchorage on the night of Friday 25 to Saturday 26 September shortly after midnight and struck shoals in Ajaccio bay before sinking, announced the maritime prefecture which is looking for two missing men .
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While a woman was found safe and sound on the coast and was taken care of by firefighters, the search for two men is continuing at sea as on land
", indicates the maritime prefecture.
In meteorological conditions complicated by bad weather, significant resources were deployed, in particular a civil security helicopter, the intervention, assistance and rescue tug Abeille Flandre pre-positioned in Corse-du-Sud, a the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) and land patrols of firefighters.
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The diver from the Dragon helicopter was hired for a cursory inspection of the wreckage, in difficult conditions which did not allow a complete visual inspection, without being able to find the people still missing
", specifies the maritime prefecture.
Debris of this French sailboat baptized the "
Be Bop
" as well as its wreck were located, indicates the authority by recalling that the meteorological conditions were particularly degraded, with gusts of wind of more than 90 km / h and a heavy sea with hollows of up to four meters, which "
complicates search operations
".
Corsica is placed on orange alert for "
strong winds
".
The prefecture had called for limiting travel, respecting bans on the use of fire, avoiding the coast and listening to the local media.
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