The boat in which this morning's explosion occurred , which caused the injury of a 56-year-old woman , hit in the lower limbs and now hospitalized in serious condition at the Brotzu hospital in Cagliari .
A splinter also lodged in the foot of her husband , who was the same age.
The explosion, according to the initial findings of the Coast Guard of Villasimius, would have been triggered by the short circuit of the on-board autoclave : a spark would then have ignited the gasoline fumes with which the engine room was saturated, thus causing the explosion.
Fortunately, the fire-fighting system with which the fiberglass boat is equipped, 8 and a half meters long, went into operation immediately, discharging 7.5 kilos of Co2 on the fire.
The explosion affected only the engine room and hit the woman, while her husband was in another part of the boat.
The couple is from Quartu Sant'Elena and was spending a few days of vacation in Villasimius sleeping on the boat.
(Unioneonline / vl)