23-year-old Marcel Bodez, customs agent of Algiers. Surviving only one.

An unthinking decision saves his life: to jump to the emptiness in the darkness of the night. He remains 24 hours living in a cave, prisoner of the sea, harassed by the remains of the shipwreck.

"...In his explanations he would attribute the catastrophe to the invasion of the water of the sea to the room of boilers producing immediately afterwards an explosion. «What saved me is that I had the presence of sufficient spirit to get a life jacket and of throwing myself firmly to the sea»..."

Alfonso Buenaventura "Naufragios y siniestros en la costa de Menorca"