{"id":36999,"date":"2026-07-21T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=36999"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:08:34","slug":"une-epave-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-ravagee-un-voilier-de-luxe-dans-le-viseur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/07\/21\/une-epave-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-ravagee-un-voilier-de-luxe-dans-le-viseur\/","title":{"rendered":"Une \u00e9pave de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ravag\u00e9e : un voilier de luxe dans le viseur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Vendredi 17 juillet au matin, Patrick Bellantonio, g\u00e9rant du club de plong\u00e9e Aquanaut, \u00e0 Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer, plonge \u00e0 39\u00a0m de profondeur en direction de l\u2019\u00e9pave de l\u2019avion de combat P-38 Lightning, immerg\u00e9 au large des c\u00f4tes. Sur place, la d\u00e9couverte qu\u2019il fait lui cr\u00e8ve le c\u0153ur\u00a0: le morceau d\u2019histoire abattu en ao\u00fbt\u00a01944, sur lequel il a l\u2019habitude de plonger avec ses stagiaires \u00e0 la fin de leur formation, a \u00e9t\u00e9 compl\u00e8tement ravag\u00e9e. \u00ab\u00a0<i>Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverte en 1996 par les anciens g\u00e9rants du centre de plong\u00e9e de La<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Ciotat. Ils l\u2019ont identifi\u00e9e, ils l\u2019ont d\u00e9sensabl\u00e9e, et depuis, c\u2019\u00e9tait une attraction de la baie, maintenant elle est d\u00e9sint\u00e9gr\u00e9e<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb, confie le plongeur.<\/p>\n<p>Les soup\u00e7ons de Patrick Bellantonio se portent vers le plus grand voilier de croisi\u00e8res de luxe au monde\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0<i>L\u2019Orient Express Corinthian a mouill\u00e9 au-dessus de l\u2019\u00e9pave, la veille.<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb Selon le moniteur, le voilier aurait pu labourer l\u2019avion en remontant son ancre, malgr\u00e9 sa signalisation sur les cartes marines<i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Avant, c\u2019\u00e9tait un avion, certes tr\u00e8s ab\u00eem\u00e9, mais on reconnaissait sans probl\u00e8me la forme, maintenant, ce n\u2019est plus que de la ferraille broy\u00e9e, <\/i>d\u00e9plore Patrick Bellantonio.<i> D\u00e8s le retour de ma plong\u00e9e, j\u2019ai contact\u00e9 la mairie de Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer pour qu\u2019elle se joigne \u00e0 la mairie de La<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Ciotat et qu\u2019elles entament des d\u00e9marches aupr\u00e8s de la pr\u00e9fecture maritime.<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb Celle-ci a pris un arr\u00eat\u00e9 pour interdire la plong\u00e9e au-dessus des restes en raison des d\u00e9bris contondants, et \u00e9galement pour \u00e9viter que des pillards d\u00e9sireux de r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer des souvenirs de l\u2019\u00e9pave ne viennent se servir.<\/p>\n<p>La DRASSM (D\u00e9partement des recherches arch\u00e9ologiques subaquatiques et sous-marines) a \u00e9t\u00e9 contact\u00e9e et doit inspecter, ce mardi matin, l\u2019\u00e9pave afin de constater les d\u00e9g\u00e2ts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Louis Golliot<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vendredi 17 juillet au matin, Patrick Bellantonio, g&eacute;rant du club de plong&eacute;e Aquanaut, &agrave; Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer, plonge &agrave; 39&nbsp;m de profondeur en direction de l&rsquo;&eacute;pave de l&rsquo;avion de combat P-38 Lightning, &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3926,3925,20],"tags":[1793,4635,2593,5864,1485,2525,868,3082,31,1227],"news-destination":[3944],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-36999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accueil-merge","category-accueil-third","category-societe","tag-archeologie","tag-avion","tag-epaves","tag-faune-aquatique","tag-luxe","tag-plongee","tag-saint-cyr-sur-mer","tag-seconde-guerre-mondiale","tag-var","tag-voilier","news-destination-homepage","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37001,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999\/revisions\/37001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=36999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}