The underwater search for the body of Manuel Cientanni, the 29-year-old from Salerno who disappeared at sea off the coast of Cetara, on the Amalfi coast, since August 14, has been interrupted.
After five days of uninterrupted searches, a stop was decided since yesterday afternoon. The divers of the Fire Brigade of the provincial command of Salerno, supported by specialized colleagues from the directorates of the Red Helmets of Lazio and Calabria, with Side Scan Sonar, a latest generation instrument that allows a wider and more detailed range of action for the control of the seabed.
But also the military of the Port Authority who used a ROV (remotely operated vehicle) submarine, with a wide-range underwater camera, piloted from a remote location. The monitoring areas of the seabed were divided into sectors. But the quality of the images, appropriately recorded, would not be the best due to the particularly turbid condition of the underwater waters.
As has happened in other tragedies at sea, it is likely that the boy's body could have been transported by underwater currents into the open sea. And that it could have even resurfaced. The search, for this reason, will continue, with wide-ranging aerial searches, near the coast and in the open sea, with the helicopters of the Fire Department and the Coast Guard, but also at sea with patrols by the Coast Guard's patrol boats, at least until next August 24.
Meanwhile, the investigations of the Salerno Public Prosecutor's Office continue and at the moment they have entered in the register of suspects the other two people on board the rented boat, two friends with whom the missing man had spent the day at sea.
They are a 19-year-old from Morocco, who tested positive for soft drugs, and a 33-year-old from Eastern Europe. The prosecutor who is following the investigation has listened to the two several times to try to reconstruct the dynamics and also understand what really happened on board the vessel and could have caused the fall and the alleged injury to the boy, so much so as to prevent him from resurfacing after the fall.
Article published on 21 August 2023 - 11:35
