On the night between Sunday 6 and Monday 7 December, following a signal for help from the Australian port authorities, the Venetian shipowner Giovanni Visentini, bound for Singapore with his bulk vessel V Uno, gave the order to hijack to go to rescue two sailors in distress 150 miles north-west of the Australian coast.
After ten hours of navigation and three of searches, the two shipwrecked were finally spotted aboard the Savana, a fifteen-meter sailing ship, destroyed by the storm.
The recovery phase was not easy but in the end the goal was achieved and the castaways were saved.
