Two dead after the sinking of a sailboat against the cliffs

Two men died on Sunday, October 17 in the evening in the sinking of their sailboat near Vierville, according to this cut. Caught in winds of force 6 to 7 and hollows of four meters, the 9.50 m boat had been pushed against the point of the Percée, a few hundred meters from the beach of Omaha.

The port-en-Bessin traffic light had reported red rockets around 10 p.m. Embarrassed by the darkness, the firefighters had not found the ship, located only on Monday morning by the traffic light.

Rescuers discovered the bodies a few tens of meters from the boat, whose hull was intact. The newspaper named Serge Biermann, 52, and Marcel Taburet, 62, both domiciled in Évreux. Leaving Deauville on Saturday morning, they had to go to Saint-Malo. The photograph is credited to Boudonnet.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The ages, length of the sailboat and Biermann spelling differ from the other cut: they are reported as indicated in this article, without invented correction.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc10/1993oct31-FaitDivers.jpg