The fast vessel “Isola di Procida”, which left Capri, would have hit the structure during mooring operations, perhaps due to a technical accident or a gust of wind. Only one of the people involved is in code red
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The Caremar fast ship “Isola di Procida”, which left Capri, hit a dock at Molo Beverello in Naples this morning during mooring operations. Ambulances arrived on site to help the injured: in total there are 29 of which one is in code red for trauma from multiple contusions. Another 13 are in code green, 7 in code yellow and evaluation is still underway for 8.
The injured
There were several hundred people on board the ship, including many foreigners. Some of the injured were transported to the nearest hospitals: many of them suffered maxillofacial bruises. At the time of the accident, upon arrival at the port, the passengers were almost all standing and would have fallen due to the violent impact. On board the ship, in addition to the 118 health workers, also the men of the Captaincy and the State Police.
The hypothesis
The shipping company states that the impact was probably caused by a technical accident, that all the assistance procedures required for passengers have been activated and that maximum collaboration will be provided to the maritime authority to ascertain the causes of the accident. However, it could also have been a gust of wind that caused the skid and therefore the collision: at sea there were waves around two meters high and gusts which however allowed navigation.
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The story of the passengers
“I was at the top of the stairs, in the front row in front of all the other passengers, as the ship approached the dock to dock and then suddenly I fell down and found myself on the landing, luckily I didn’t hit my head but only a calf and a shoulder”, says one of the injured passengers. “There was also the chain that prevented access to the stairs but I think it broke due to the impact; afterwards I was a little scared but above all I felt disoriented, I couldn’t understand what was happening”, says the man while waiting to be transferred by ambulance to hospital, sitting on a chair in the garage of the ferry to the island of Procida. Regarding the speed of the rescue, he adds: “There were several other injured people, certainly more serious cases than mine, who were given priority in the rescue.” Then an Italian tourist tells reporters: “A very strong blow, I didn’t fall to the ground by pure luck but I took a violent blow to the face, I saw many people fall to the ground”.
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