Three people died at sea after their pleasure boat overturned Monday evening near Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais).
They had “gone to sea on a pleasure boat of the fishing-promenade type” and their disappearance was reported Monday “in the early evening” by their relatives worried about not seeing them return, said Tuesday the maritime prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea in a press release.
A National Navy helicopter, a Belgian helicopter and a private plane chartered by the Ministry of the Interior were mobilized, and several boats sailing nearby were diverted to participate in the search.
The bodies found near the hull
In the middle of the night, a person on land reported to the emergency services “an overturned ship’s hull” in the harbor of the port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, which “could correspond to the report of the missing fishing-promenade”, specified the prefecture.
The semi-rigid rescue tug of the French Navy Abeille Normandie recovered the empty hull, before finding the inanimate victims in the same sector.
The remains brought ashore were entrusted to the maritime gendarmerie in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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