Passionate and expert Ottavia Piana was injured while remaining at a depth of 150 meters, 60 worked to save her
– Bergamo
Ottavia Piana was saved. After two days in one grotto in the Bergamo area, the woman was recovered and transported to air ambulance at the Civil Hospitals of Brescia, she always remained conscious during all the rescue operations.
Spelunker stuck in cave rescued
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There 31 year old femaleon Sunday, was exploring a new passage way in the cave of Bueno Foteno in the province of Bergamo. Together with other explorers, he is 150 meters deep. While he was climbing at a lift point, the block of rock she was secured to gave way and struck her leg. At that point being able to return to the surface was impossible for her. The other companions who were with her immediately called her help but, as she explained to the Corriere della Sera, Corrado Camerini, doctor and speleologist who coordinated the rescue, the pain of the wound made the rescue operations complex. To all this was added the rain that has hit the area in the last few hours.
60 people to save her
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To the rescue operations of Octavia Piana participated approx 60 people among the technicians of the Lombardy Alpine and Speleological Rescue delegation to those sent by Veneto, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Trentino Alto Adige. As soon as Ottavia Piana was rescued, she apologized to everyone: “I made a mess. I am very happy to see you” were her first words. In the first hours, the rescuers transported her up to about 50 meters and then from a second well, they hoisted her on a stretcher until she reached the surface. In some places the stretcher was placed in a vertical position, making the ascent even faster, despite the difficulty and the danger for the speleologist.
who is flat octavia
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Ottavia Piana is 31 years old and works in the family business in Adro in the province of Brescia, but his greatest passion is speleology, as demonstrated by the shots posted on his social networks. A passion born in 2016 after finishing the first course of caving, and which he cultivated on every possible occasion, often going out with the Cai di Lovere teams of which he is a member and with which he was precisely on the Sunday in which he had the accident. There Bueno Fonteno cave of Fonteno is a very ancient karst complex, a branched cave that it extends for about 34 km and that it is mostly unexplored. Octavia fell for about one and a half meters, slamming into the rock face and her colleagues at Cai Lovere hope nothing is broken because “recovery times would lengthen and she’s not a person who knows how to sit still” commented Maurizio Finazzi. president of Cai di Lovere a The Republic. Comrades describe her as an expert and always cautious speleologist: “He always moves carefully for his own safety and that of the other team-mates” added Finazzi. So it came to him a fatality luckily with a happy ending.
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