PowerYachtBlog
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Anyone there who knows what happened? Seems something went wrong this afternoon in the South of France show.
Cannes Boat Show Incident?
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Portofino
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A pleasure boat with 3 people on board hit a big wave throwing two out l
The one left in panicked and jumped out she went under the props and died
The one left in panicked and jumped out she went under the props and died
PowerYachtBlog
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Was it a boat from the show or just someone passing around?
Thank you for the reply.
Thank you for the reply.
Portofino
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Don,t know yet
Condolences to those close .
Condolences to those close .
jfm
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The sea off Cannes was pretty rough today. Quick translation from local news this evening:
A pleasure boat hit a wave off the port of Cannes with three people on board.
Two of them were immediately ejected. The third, a woman in her thirties, panicked, jumped overboard, engine. She was immediately caught by the propeller of the boat and died instantly.
The two passengers of the ship unharmed but shocked, were supported by emergency services.
The Coastguard dispatched a police officer on the scene.
A pleasure boat hit a wave off the port of Cannes with three people on board.
Two of them were immediately ejected. The third, a woman in her thirties, panicked, jumped overboard, engine. She was immediately caught by the propeller of the boat and died instantly.
The two passengers of the ship unharmed but shocked, were supported by emergency services.
The Coastguard dispatched a police officer on the scene.
MYAG
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I was at the show today but didn't hear of this incident. Wind has been picking up all day and there is some biggish chop out there as a result. Sad to hear of the report.
Portofino
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Your hunch was right apparently -here's this Looks like yet other RIB accident http://www.magazzu.com/en/m-gt.html
Got this from the net -below
Woman dies during a sea trial in Cannes
Sad news has appeared online from Cannes where a woman has died after jumping from a moving powerboat and getting caught in its propeller. A full investigation is currently ongoing by the police.
From an official press communiqué, we know that a little before 19:00 on Saturday 12th September, a powerboat has hit a large wave 1.8 kilometers from the coast. Three passengers were onboard at the time, two of them have been immediately ejected from the boat on impact whilst the remaining woman jumped, presumably in panic, and got caught in the propeller resulting in a lethal outcome.
Rescued by firefighters, the two remaining passengers were in a state of shock but safe.
Italian powerboat magazine, il Gommone, has indicated, without quoting any sources, that the sinister happened whilst the group was on a sea trial of a boat by Cantieri Magazzù. It further goes on to claim that the allegedly Cypriot journalist was at the time in command of the boat although this remains speculations at this moment in time.
- 13th September 2015
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Portofino
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Bit more digging -another killcord incident
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Questa sera, attorno alle 19.00, si consumata una tragedia durante il penultimo giorno del Cannes Yachting Festival. Una donna di circa trent’anni è morta tranciata dall’elica dei motori dopo essersi buttata in acqua, probabilmente in preda al panico, in seguito a una manovra azzardata condotta da un giornalista (forse di nazionalità cipriota) che in quel momento era alla guida di un gommone dei Cantieri Magazzù per un test. Secondo una prima, sommaria ricostruzione, a causa della virata improvvisa del pilota, sarebbero stati scaraventati in acqua sia il giornalista, sia Renato Magazzù, che in quel momento si trovava a fianco al giornalista, che pare non avesse lo stacco di sicurezza allacciato. Il maxi-gommone (al Salone di Cannes il cantiere palermitano esponeva tutti battelli di grandi dimensioni, tra cui la «novità» MX-12 Gran Sport) ha cominciato a girare su se stesso fino a che non ha colpito mortalmente la donna che nel frattempo si era buttata in acqua. Tra i primi a venire in soccorso dei naufraghi sul luogo dell’incidente (nella baia di Cannes, poco lontano dal porto) è arrivato Pietro Gargiulo, patron della Master (anch’esso espositore al Salone di Cannes), il quale ha provveduto anche a bloccare il corpo senza vita della donna prima che la corrente lo portasse lontano. Sul luogo dell’incidente sono giunti qualche minuto dopo i Sapeur-pompier e la polizia. Le condizioni meteomarine, al momento dell’incidente, erano buone.
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Questa sera, attorno alle 19.00, si consumata una tragedia durante il penultimo giorno del Cannes Yachting Festival. Una donna di circa trent’anni è morta tranciata dall’elica dei motori dopo essersi buttata in acqua, probabilmente in preda al panico, in seguito a una manovra azzardata condotta da un giornalista (forse di nazionalità cipriota) che in quel momento era alla guida di un gommone dei Cantieri Magazzù per un test. Secondo una prima, sommaria ricostruzione, a causa della virata improvvisa del pilota, sarebbero stati scaraventati in acqua sia il giornalista, sia Renato Magazzù, che in quel momento si trovava a fianco al giornalista, che pare non avesse lo stacco di sicurezza allacciato. Il maxi-gommone (al Salone di Cannes il cantiere palermitano esponeva tutti battelli di grandi dimensioni, tra cui la «novità» MX-12 Gran Sport) ha cominciato a girare su se stesso fino a che non ha colpito mortalmente la donna che nel frattempo si era buttata in acqua. Tra i primi a venire in soccorso dei naufraghi sul luogo dell’incidente (nella baia di Cannes, poco lontano dal porto) è arrivato Pietro Gargiulo, patron della Master (anch’esso espositore al Salone di Cannes), il quale ha provveduto anche a bloccare il corpo senza vita della donna prima che la corrente lo portasse lontano. Sul luogo dell’incidente sono giunti qualche minuto dopo i Sapeur-pompier e la polizia. Le condizioni meteomarine, al momento dell’incidente, erano buone.
MapisM
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Actually, the IT boat magazine reports that the conditions were good, and the crew was thrown overboard because of a hard over steering of the Cypriot journalist, who was in command and had no kill cord.
Regardless, very sad indeed.
http://www.ilgommone.net/tragedia-a...mmone-muore-una-donna-tranciata-dalle-eliche/
PS: I was posting this while Portofino attached the abstract above, which is taken from the webpage that I linked.
Regardless, very sad indeed.
http://www.ilgommone.net/tragedia-a...mmone-muore-una-donna-tranciata-dalle-eliche/
PS: I was posting this while Portofino attached the abstract above, which is taken from the webpage that I linked.
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jfm
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I think (not sure) this would be twin diesel stern drive so might not have had any kill cord
MapisM
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In the above linked webpage they do say that the kill cord was not attached - which I suppose means that there was one, to start with.
I wouldn't hold my breath on the accuracy of these articles, though...
I wouldn't hold my breath on the accuracy of these articles, though...
PowerYachtBlog
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Sad accident indeed. Some of these large ribs do have very little or no protection in the middle of the cockpit IMO.
MapisM
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I spoke with a folk who was at Cannes as an exhibitor, and asked him about the accident.
He told me that he barely heard of it from another guy who read that on the internet, because at the boat show they managed to practically cover the sad news completely.
Now, I understand that nobody of the French in charge of the show wanted the death of a young lady to spoil the event and its final fireworks.
But they could have arranged at least 10 seconds of silence, if they thought than one minute was too much... :disgust:
He told me that he barely heard of it from another guy who read that on the internet, because at the boat show they managed to practically cover the sad news completely.
Now, I understand that nobody of the French in charge of the show wanted the death of a young lady to spoil the event and its final fireworks.
But they could have arranged at least 10 seconds of silence, if they thought than one minute was too much... :disgust:
