“They were incredibly lucky that we saw them with a reflection of the moon and the sea” comments a rescuer. A man in his thirties and his 8-year-old nephew, missing when they left on a jet-ski in the early evening off Valras Plage, near Béziers (Hérault), were found healthy and safe, in the night of Thursday to Friday by a crew of the SNSM, reports Free noon.
It was the child’s father, not seeing the boat return, who had given the alert. In the middle of the night, the crew members began their search using radar and moonlight. The man and his nephew are found around 10:30 p.m., frozen with cold.
They had had an engine failure, and the thirty-something having left without a cell phone, or distress flare and without a lamp, he had not been able to call the emergency services.