The $11 million vessel was motoring through the Gulf of Squillace when the coast guard responded to a call that the boat’s stern was filling up with water.
this weekend, as the Italian Coast Guard sprang into action to rescue all nine people on board.
They returned the next morning with a tugboat to haul My Saga to shore and pick up the captain and the three remaining crew members, by which point sea conditions were turning rougher and the yacht was listing sharply. It sank in the early afternoon.flag. It was built by Italian shipmaker Cantieri San Marco and designed by popular British superyacht designer Tim Heywood.
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