The body of a 37-year-old man was found by fire brigade divers. The six other occupants of the damaged semi-rigid were all evacuated to hospitals in Var.
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A 37-year-old man died this Saturday in the accident of the boat in which he was sailing off the coast of Saint-Tropez (Var) which also left three seriously injured and three more lightly injured.
“Shortly after 9 a.m., divers located a body submerged in a depth of 25 meters about thirty meters from the accident site which unfortunately turned out to be the person initially missing” indicates the maritime prefecture of the Mediterranean in a press release.
The semi-rigid boat hit a mooring box east of Saint-Tropez • © René Boucherot SNSM Saint-Tropez
Around 2 a.m., the 8-meter semi-rigid with seven people on board hit a mooring box off Canebiers beach, east of Saint-Tropez. Under the violence of the shock, the occupants of the boat were all ejected.
CrossMed coordinated a major rescue effort, including two SNSM launches and a Navy helicopter and 26 Var firefighters, including three divers.
It was the Var fire brigade divers who found, this Saturday early in the morning, the lifeless body of the last passenger, missing since the accident.
During the night, three seriously injured passengers – two men aged 35 and 52 and a woman aged 38 – were respectively evacuated to the hospitals of Fréjus, Draguignan and Gassin, the Var firefighters indicated in a press release.
An investigation was opened by the Draguignan public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the Issambres Coastal Nautical Brigade. • © René Boucherot SNSM Saint-Tropez
The three other injured, lighter people – two men aged 24 and 20 and a 20-year-old woman – were transported to the Gassin health center.
An investigation was opened by the Draguignan public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the Issambres Coastal Nautical Brigade to determine the circumstances of the accident, specifies the maritime prefecture.
