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When Wolfgang resurfaced together with many
remains of Deern, he looked around and saw
no one, only a few pieces of what once was
his boat. He groped in the icy water, shouting
Roswitha's name.
He called her again and again, and kept silent in
between to wait for her answer, but that answer
never came. Wolfgang was in the middle of the
Baltic Sea, between Northern Germany and
Denmark, on a starry and cold night. His end was
inevitable and he knew it, he would never make it
without a lifejacket or something to hold him up,
and what is more, nobody knew about the colli
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sion, so nobody would come looking for him. He
grabbed several remains of the boat, but none of
them was suitable to ensure his survival. And then
he saw something orange with reflectors a little
further, swam towards that object and grasped
it: it was a child sized lifejacket. Although he did
not remember about it, he was glad that the small
jacket had been on board and had found its way
to the surface.
Above: the Dreen wreck. Mrs
Roswitha Gehrig's body was only
retrieved once the boat was brought
ashore.
In these two photos: the Deern wreck
as it was retrieved by the German
Navy ship. Mrs Roswitha Gehrig's
body was found in the forward area,
and the autopsy determined that she
died by drowning.
