For a moment, Charlotte Golunski said she lost her grip on her 1-year-old daughter after the yacht capsized, but she was able to grab her and keep the little girl safe.
how she saved her 1-year-old baby from drowning after a $39 million superyacht sank beneath the waves off the coast ofsaid she lost her grip on her daughter, Sophie, in the heavy seas after the yacht capsized in a freak waterspout.
“I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning,” Golunski, 35, told Italian newspaper. “It was all dark. In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.” She said she could “still hear her little girl crying in her ears as they floated in the waves and their holiday sailboat sank.”
Her husband, James, also survived and was treated at another Palermo hospital. The family was due to be reunited later on Monday. James’ first question to his wife on the phone was: “How is the little girl? Is she there with you?”Dr. Domenico Cipolla, head of the emergency room at the children’s hospital, telling local news media: “She told me that while they were sleeping, at a certain point the yacht overturned due to the tornado, and they found themselves in the water.
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