Two men and a woman, left for a boat trip off Saint-Guénolé (Finistère), were found dead at sea by rescuers, announced Thursday the maritime prefecture of the Atlantic.
Two men and a woman, left for a boat trip off Saint-Guénolé (Finistère), were found dead at sea by rescuers, announced Thursday the maritime prefecture of the Atlantic.
It was the wife of the owner of the boat who gave the alert on Wednesday around 7.45 p.m.
Her husband, a 62-year-old man, left around 5 pm for a walk around the harbor on the motorized pleasure boat "Balen", with two passengers, another man and a woman.
The three victims were equipped with their life jackets
Alerted, the Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center (Cross) then broadcast a "Mayday Relay" message and engaged a "major search device", with the Civil Security Dragon 29 helicopter, the Prince all-weather canoe. Eckmühl from the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) from Saint Guénolé-Penmarc'h and two light rescue boats from Finistère firefighters.
The three victims, equipped with their life jackets, were seen around 9:30 p.m. "then recovered in the open sea by volunteers from the SNSM and by the diver from the Dragon 29 helicopter about 1 km west of the port exit de Saint-Guénolé ", according to the press release.
They were brought ashore at 10:32 p.m.
"The death of the three boaters can unfortunately only be noted by a doctor on duty in Quimper. Their bodies are then taken care of by the Lorient maritime gendarmerie brigade", according to the same source.
The cause of their death is unknown, the sea being relatively calm at the time of the incident.