Ordeal too much for Italian yachtsman
jNZPA-Reuter Johannesburg Maurice Mancini, an Italian who spent 73 days adrift lin the Atlantic in a life-raft after his yacht was holed by a whale, has died on board a 'rescue ship. Mr Mancini, who was , 50, and another Italian, Abrogio iFogar, aged 36, were forced |to take to the life-raft when 'their sloop, Spirit of Surprise, sank on January 19. Air and sea searches I failed to find them, but they I were finally picked up by a Greek merchant ship. The “Johannesburg Star” newspaper said the ordeal had proved too great for Mr I Mancini. Despite a desperate mercy dash to Montevideo by the Greek ship Master Stefanos, and medical advice from Cape Town by radio, he died on Wednesday, the newspaper said.
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Press, 7 April 1978, Page 6
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