The adventurous sailor, of Spanish nationality, began sailing from the island of Crete towards Sicily on 11 April, aboard a 12-metre vessel. It didn’t go as he hoped.
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He had been missing for several days Greece and Italy, was saved thanks to a complex rescue operation conducted by the Coast Guard. The navigator, of Spanish nationality, had started on April 11th sea crossing from the island of Crete towards Sicily, aboard a 12 meter sailing vessel. There had been no news of him for several days now.
After obtaining the information from the Piraeus rescue center (in Greece) and acquiring a satellite signal which highlighted the possible presence of the vessel 110 miles from Cape Spartivento (about 200 km from the Calabrian coast), the rescue machine was activated Coast Guard coordinated by the Maritime Directorate of Reggio Calabria, with a jet taking off from Catania, a patrol boat leaving from Roccella Jonica and two merchant ships diverted to the area in search of the missing person.
Despite the bad weather conditions, 40 knots of wind and sea 5 worsening, yesterday afternoon, Friday 19 April, the vessel was spotted by the Coast Guard aircraft, the “Black Bit”. The navigator immediately launched light signals to be identified. There sail boat was reached in the middle of the night by the CP311 patrol boat Roccella Jonica who took the sailor on board.
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After initial treatment on the Coast Guard unit, the Spaniard was entrusted to the 118 health workers upon arrival at the port of Roccella only at dawn today. The adventurous navigator However, it would not be life-threatening.
