It took Sardinia and Corsica twelve thousand years to move so far apart. The last "contact" between the two islands, according to paleontologists, dates back to the end of the Pleistocene. A geological gap of just 12 km of navigation, just 45 minutes of crossing the disastrous Strait of Bonifacio. All this until November 27 of this year. Since then the distance between the two islands has become abysmal.
Worse than the ice ages
Sardinia Region & Moby Lines have succeeded where even the most shocking ice ages had failed. Overcoming every law of geology, mocking the archaic somersaults of the sea and the land, the protagonists of the most surreal Sardinian-Corsican territorial continuity have succeeded in a titanic undertaking, unique in the universal history of the Mediterranean: separating Sardinia and Corsica with a full four hours of sailing. They closed, without a shot being fired, the historic route between Santa Teresa di Gallura and Bonifacio, the coastal extremities of the two islands, to open a completely new one between Golfo Aranci and Porto Vecchio, over 70 km of additional sea to disembark on the land of Corsica. The story may seem surreal, but the news has surpassed itself.
The Newfoundland Drift
The crime would have remained hidden from most if last December 18th the “new” tramp-ship destined to extend the route between Sardinia and Corsica had not ended up unworthily adrift at the gates of the Gulf of Terranova, modern Olbia. The story of the satellite tracks is more eloquent than any land pursuit, a real gymkhana in the middle of the sea, with a ferry fortunately at the mercy of only a flat calm, just on the eve of the mistral “monsoons” forecast for the following day. The most impetuous of Onorato’s tugs, Mascalzone Scatenato, thought of saving the Moby Zaza, a name that says it all, and was forced to sadly recover it with the towing of the ship by now resigned to drifting for two hours, in the silence of the engines and the blackout of the route.
