It was supposed to be a romantic trip by sea under the starry sky of an almost summer night, but instead it ended in tragedy, in the waters of Madeleine. He was the one to die Pietro Stipa, 26 years old, naval officer still young but already experienced, originally from MaremmaYes is saved the girl who was with him, taken safely by the coast guard, after the dinghy on which they were both was crashed on the rocks of a treacherous stretch of sea, between Isola Madre and Santo Stefano.
Stipa, born in Grosseto, where he studied, he then attended the Naval Academy of Livorno, from which he graduated with the rank of Ensign. Then a period of service at the harbor master’s office of Argentario, in Porto Santo Stefano, and the destination to Madeleineto the Demining unit for defense against insidious vehicles (Come on.)
The passion for sailing
When he was still an aspiring officer, in 2019, he participated in Spain, with a colleague, and won, in the “Las Anclas” trophy, a sailing regatta between military crews from seven navies from around the world. All this to say that he was a sailor with extensive training, passionate about the water and coming from a family with a long tradition: even the Father Piergiorgio has a profound knowledge of the sea and also a good level diver, who also dedicates himself to activities related to the marine world for work.
It seems that the six-metre dinghy involved in the tragedy was owned by the young officer, who when he wasn’t at La Maddalena moved between Grosseto, where He also leaves behind his mother and three brothersand Orbetello, where the grandmother still lives.
The rescue of the girl, the desperate search for him
Acquaintances say that Pietro Stipa also had a detailed knowledge of the waters of the Maddalena, yet it was precisely those that betrayed him, in the form of a bank of rocks almost at the surface that the small boat, perhaps due to the darkness, could not she managed to avoid. The officer disappeared into the sea, while the coast guard men managed to immediately save the girl.
It was she who explained that she was not alone and that there was someone missing, around four in the morning. The research they therefore resumed and after an hour and a half, at dawn, the body of the young man from Grosseto was also recovered, then transported to the Maddalena morgue.
