Guest of friends in a residence in Siniscola, she had been invited to spend the day at the beach in the Barony area, but the dinghy trip along the Baunei coast, booked in Cala Gonone by family members, took precedence.

And so yesterday afternoon Marina Masia, a 29-year-old from Nuoro, a graduate in medicine and a specialist in Immunology at the University of Florence, met her death which materialized under the cliffs overlooking the Piscine di Venere .

She was killed by a branch of holm oak which fell in the exact spot where she was swimming at that moment, around 2.30 pm, in the crystal clear waters found on the stretch of coast between Cala Mariolu and Cala Biriala, forbidden to navigation but often frequented by swimmers who equipped with a mask and snorkel, they venture to swim right under the cliff .

Her brother was also swimming next to the girl, touched by the fronds of the holm oak branch, who immediately raised the alarm. The operators of the rented dinghy departed from Cala Gonone, on which the mother of the two young people was also present. In an attempt to revive Masia, whose conditions immediately appeared serious, the defibrillator supplied to the vigilantes of the municipality of Baunei present on the beach of Biriala was used. Also on site are Areus' ambulance and a patrol boat from the Captaincy . But it was all in vain.

Giampaolo Porcu

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