The morning after, update

With the help of the wine finally we all went to sleep. Waking up was a bit unreal though.
When I went over to the marina office, I learned that they were still searching for the 4^th man.

He might have been down below at the time of the collision and didn't manage to get out in time or injured by the collision. We only saw 3 man …

We all feel very sorry for the loss of the 4^th guy. We could not have done more or anything different but still.. you keep thinking what if …

Today we'll go for Corme after all. There's nothing more we can do here and there's no point in staying another day.

Andy posted an message on the Yachting Monthly forum and they asked us to write them the whole story and send it in. I think by writing and talking about it, it helps us to digest what all happened. Also we'll do some practicing in rescuing manoeuvrings on our way to Corme. We're all trained quite well but you have to keep practicing, although ... I really don't want this to happen for real again.

See for the artical of the local newspaper http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/coruna/2011/10/06/0003_201110H6P30991.htm?ok=1#

In the mean time we all went for a shower and Rutger gave a radio interview.

Some time later we were asked to go over to the port control office to give a statement.

Andy and Rutger told what they had seen and Andy was asked to write a statement and sign it. They also made a copy of my log. What seemed to have happened was that the fishing vessel tried to overtake the freighter but miscalculated their speed difference and the distance.

The man we got out of the water was probably the skipper and the one that's still missing is his son.

There were divers out now to try and find him. The other 3 are still in the hospital, one of them broke his leg.

We had a coffee and decided to pick up the plan we had yesterday, leaving for Corme tonight after dinner to get there by sunrise tomorrow morning. That is, if the visibility is good enough to get out of the marina.