What happened?

Police are looking for witnesses after fatal sailing accident

It is unclear what happened after a sailing accident on Lake Constance: a German and a Briton lost their lives. The police are puzzled as to how the accident happened.  

On Friday afternoon at around 2 p.m., two sailing friends set off in their dinghy cruiser from Friedrichshafen on the German shore of Lake Constance to Constance for the "Regatta of the Iron". However, they never arrived there. A police search operation including a helicopter and thermal imaging camera was launched, but the men, aged 38 and 39, could not be found either on the lake or on the shore.

There was also no trace of their six-metre-long boat with its striking yellow sail and skull motif. The two were only found on Saturday, floating lifeless off the Swiss lakeshore near Münsterlingen. It is still completely unclear how the accident happened. That is why the police are now hoping for witnesses to the incident.

Last seen near Fischbach
The boat was last seen by a mutual sailing friend near Fischbach (Friedrichshafen). Due to the current, the location in Switzerland is probably not the scene of the accident.