Miguel Bernardeau, protagonist of a successful series
Miguel Bernardeau has returned to the media spotlight thanks to his role in a very popular television series. The actor is a lover of the sea and usually surfs frequently, a hobby that almost cost him his life: “Since I was a child I like to surf big waves, but I almost died on a day of sailing on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea.” ». What happened? He says that he was going with a friend on a windy day when, suddenly, they fell into the water and were there for more than three hours.
Miguel Bernardeau tells how he ended up in the sea with hypothermia
The actor Miguel Bernardeau relates that they were tied with harnesses and were navigating through an area that they knew well, since they had been there all their lives. It was very hard and I will never forget it… The problem is that I hung myself to balance and, suddenly, a piece of the assembly failed and we both fell into the water. The catamaran left alone… There was no one else », he explains.
The scare was enormous, but luckily – they thought – they were in an area very busy with millionaires with their boats and yachts. However, no one did anything to help them while they were freezing in the water: «No one stopped. We were there for three and a half hours screaming as we watched them go by, but no one paid attention to us. Meanwhile, our throats became crystallized because of the salt and we were hypothermic. “That’s when I thought we had a problem.”
Miguel Bernardeau, rescued by a man who offered him champagne
The story has a happy ending, yes, thanks to the fact that a man found the young people’s catamaran adrift alone and wanted to look for them: “I will remember all my life that when he gave me his hand to take me, he offered me a glass of champagne.” . Now he tells it with a smile, but without a doubt that episode had to mark him and make him very afraid to go out with the boat.
