Two boaters found dead near the Pointe de la Percée

The two occupants of the Canelle died on the night of a Sunday to a Monday near Vierville. The sailboat and bodies were found at the Pointe de la Percée, a few hundred meters from the beach.

Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, a witness and the Port-en-Bessin coastwatch station had seen a distress rocket. According to the CROSS Jobourg, in charge of relief, a very strong sea and winds reaching 75 km/h prevented a maritime search. For two hours, the Trévières firefighters swept the coast with spotlights, without spotting the boat. A gendarmerie patrol was scheduled at dawn. The coastwatch station finally located the sailboat on Monday around 7:30 a.m.

Serge Bierman, 52, and Marcel Taburet, a 68-year-old retiree, both lived in Évreux. They had left Deauville on Saturday in the middle of the morning. Serge Bierman had just bought this 8.75 m First 30 Bénéteau, used and registered in Toulon.

Despite the bad weather announced, the two men had taken to sea. Witnesses had observed the boat advancing with difficulty during the afternoon. Around 3 p.m., after losing sight of the boat as it approached the coast, the coastwatch station alerted the gendarmerie, then located it again. Around 6 p.m., a regular visitor spotted the boat about 400 m from the shore, facing Colleville, and assumed that its crew was trying to reach Port-en-Bessin. The cut indicated that no radio call had been recorded before the night, despite the on-board equipment.

The strong tide may have pushed the sailboat into the cove. Rescuers found the boat lying on its side, with the rescue boat just deployed about fifteen meters away. The bodies were a little further away. They had to be helicoptered quickly before the rise of the sea. The maritime gendarmerie of the Caen district opened an investigation. The article is signed T. H.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- This cut gives 68 years to Marcel Taburet, an 8.75 m sailboat and the Bierman spelling. The other article on this shipwreck indicates 62 years, 9.50 m and Biermann: these divergences are preserved and are not merged. Some legends are cut at the bottom edge.

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