Divers dead in Villasimius, waiting for their friend on the dinghy: «An infinite pain»

The wait that expands and transforms the passing minutes into the fear of a nightmare. Doubt appears, time begins to betray: «The most complicated moment of my life». The apprehension in waiting for his friends, the divers Stefano Bianchelli and Mario Perniciano, turned into drama.

Cagliari

Malore per uno, l’altro ha tentato di salvarlo: l’ipotesi sulla morte dei due sub a Villasimius

Matteo Vercelli

The painful story of Paolo Mereu, who agrees to speak only to honor the memory of his friends and echo what they have left and will leave as a legacy.

On Sunday he was on the dinghy, waiting for his friends to set up the so-called pedagno, a signaling buoy connected to a heavy body to indicate the exact location of the San Marco wreck, between the island of Cavoli and Serpentara, in the sea of Villasimius.

Provincia di Cagliari

Recuperato il corpo di uno dei sub morti a Villasimius, sospese le operazioni per l’altro

They never resurfaced and today their bodies were identified , thanks to an ROV, at over 100 meters deep: Perniciano's body was brought back to the surface. The recovery operations for Bianchelli's body were interrupted due to the prohibitive sea conditions and will resume tomorrow.