A fishing boat overturns, the body of a sailor fished out at sea

Although wintry, the weather was not particularly bad until around 5:30 this morning, when a small fishing boat was shipwreck near the coast of the island of Oléron, in Charente-Maritime. Searches launched in the area made it possible to recover the lifeless body of a young 22-year-old sailor, reports France Bleu.

The fisherman managed to swim back to shore, before knocking on the first door to alert the emergency services of the shipwreck. The latter explained that after his ship overturned, he and his sailor managed to climb onto the hull of the boat before a wave threw them both back into the sea and the young sailor disappeared from his boat. field of vision.

A gendarmerie investigation was opened to try to determine the precise circumstances of this tragedy, adds public radio.