Today the National Society of Salvamento has rewarded 40 saviors and celebrated the 140° anniversary of its foundation



Today, on board of cruise ship MSC Orchestra moored to the Station Sarittima of the port of Genoa, the National Society of Salvamento (SNS), moral agency Ngo, has held the solemn national award of 40 saviors, between which 32 medals of gold (two to the memory). With the ceremony the 140° is celebrated also anniversary of the foundation of the SNS and its activity of rescues, aid and solidarity, with very many lives saved, torn to the marosi, to the flutti of water, drownings for congestion, on the rivers, lakes, and in other particular situations of fire or tied to calamitous events.

Inexplicably suspended in 1964, the ancient tradition of the solemn award comes resumption today in order to remember noble gestures and to assign to merits and acknowledgments also to the memory of saviors that often, in the courageous attempt to save the other people's life, have lost own. The ceremony intends to remember these generous people and these episodes, to on the issues reflect entirety of the brotherhood and the solidarity, to raise awareness the young people, and to at last educate to the respect of the life own and others. "We want - the National president of the company of Salvamento has explained, Giuseppe Marino - to give again relief and dignity to a delicate and irreplaceable role, that of the savior, sometimes ignored or quite forgotten from the same people saved".

They are the 32 medals to the merit in gold assigned. The rewarded ones are Simona Atzeni, Christian Barthelmess, Antonello Bentivegna, Mattia Cambi, Piero Campestri, Riccardo Cerini, Luca Chiappella, Enrico Coraci, Andrea Crispini, Stefano Gabelloni, Giulia Giovannini, Pietro Goina, Luca Lucchetti, Daniele Maino, Alberto Mereu, Piero Morelli, Antonio Naitana (to the memory), Massimiliano Nevi, Bernardino Pala, Matteo Piras, Eraldo Pizzo, Dario Russo (to the memory), Fabio Sambucci, Antonino Santostefano, Artiom Stetco, Orazio Zahara, Daniele Zanardi.

A medal to the merit in gold to the Body of the Harbour offices/Guard Costiera, is delivered to the general commander, admiral inspector head Marco Brusco. Antonio Paparo, Cacace Layer, Carlo Abate, Gabriele Antonini are instead the rewarded ones of Guard Costiera, all distinguishing for heroism in the rescue of human lives, often in conditions indeed deprive of hope.

Moreover they have received attested of merit also Marco Bollesan, rugbista of the national Italian, Raffaele Comparone (to the memory), associate SNS, Michela Corsi, managing of the MIUR, Walter D'Angelo, associate SNS, Vittorio Dani, old associate SNS, Antonio Lamberti, old associate SNS, Ketty Volpe, expert MIUR, and the family Rutabaga, relatives of Mauro Navone, 19-year-old student of awarded engineering 100 years ago of medal of gold, died in order to save a life in the Scrivia river.

President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has dedicated to the ceremony an own plate of representation.

"They are indeed many and moving the history of sea that today we have listened - have declared Luca Valentini, area manager Italy Nord the West of MSC Cruises - but the beautifulr thing is that behind every history there is a man or a woman. The saviors are for us of MSC Cruises an example and are proud to have contributed to the organization of a ceremony that has rewarded many people of value who with their courage and their stubborness have saved of the human lives".