Get off your phones make memories with your loved ones and I will see you all in September."
Thank God you’re safe Gemma this is such a frightening time the weather is so unpredictable."
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,
I’m looking forward to returning the UK and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field,
We managed to keep the ship in position and after the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone,
We didn’t see it coming.”
I was at home when the tornado hit. I immediately closed all the windows. Then I saw the boat, it had only one mast, it was very big. I saw it suddenly sink.”
A normal holiday spent happy at sea turned into a tragedy,
The yacht on the left sank at 4:05am, hit head-on by the hurricane 300 meters from the port of Porticello, next to another sailboat that provided assistance. There are reportedly 22 people on board, but unfortunately seven are missing, feared trapped inside the hull. An absurd tragedy last night. I am at a loss for words.”
We were all guests on our boss’s yacht, a kind, extraordinary person who maybe they have not yet saved,
The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), which is almost 3 degrees more than normal. This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms,
Climate-driven catastrophes in Italy will become more frequent and more intense,
We don't know which it was because it all happened in the dark in the early hours of the morning, so we have no photographs,
For two seconds I lost my baby in the sea, then I immediately hugged her again amid the fury of the waves."
There was a light and we saw that the ship was aside and then we saw a triangle. So I think she went back down,
The wind was very strong. Bad weather was expected, but not of this magnitude,
I think they are inside, all the missing people,
In a moment the hurricane took everything away
We have no memory of anything like this in our area.
The weather [forecaster] didn't report these kind of events, nor strong winds... last night everything was still. Nobody expected a tornado."