On Saturday evening, the danger to the passengers of one of the boats in the Darsena, which threatened to sink due to an as yet unidentified fault, was averted. One of NavigaMi’s tourist boats, which presents Milan from an unusual perspective, was actually loaned to Vivident Italia as a host The Kolors concert. In the late afternoon the vehicle, right at the end of the performance Band author of the summer hit “Italodisco”began to tip over where the stage was set up.
Secondly, the lowering of the vehicle with the relative entry of water Francesco Zanibelli, President of NavigaMi, would not have been caused by the excessive weight of the audience on board, “given the fact that there were 35 people and the boat can accommodate up to 60 people”. “No one behaved dangerously and therefore the impact on an object left on the seabed is more plausible, considering that shopping carts, electricity poles, mopeds, bicycles and scooters thrown into canals by vandals are often recovered.”
NavigaMi President: “The causes of the accident are currently unknown”
“But at the moment we did not understand exactly what happened – adds Zanibelli – and fortunately the audience noticed almost nothing.” In fact, there was no danger for the fans on board and the group with their instruments that got it thanks to the Thanks to the speed of the pilot, who recognized what was going on in time, things went smoothly at the end of the performance. The damaged boat was then anchored to another NavigaMi vehicle, which acted as a float, to then be emptied from the water.
The concert had become a social phenomenon
To reconstruct the dynamics of the matter, it could also be interesting to see the videos and stories published on Instagram by the public on board, but above all by those who recorded the event from the banks of the Navigli in whose public images a slight inclination towards the medium can be seen. Finally, “the recovery operations of the vessel continued throughout the night until 5:30 a.m., thanks to the arrival of a wastewater vehicle that emptied the hold and brought it back to the surface,” explains the president of NavigaMi. The boat was then moored in Darsena, where it is currently located, where repair work is underway on the electrical system, which was severely damaged by the water, and where investigations into the true cause of the accident are continuing.