On a September morning in the Venetian Lagoon, two young newlyweds — a Brazilian woman and an Italian man, three months married and expecting their first child — set out to collect bait and did not return. Their small fishing boat collided with a five-ton water taxi near the island of Burano, and both Gabriella Querino and Sean Michieli perished in the days that followed. Their story, brief and full of quiet ambition, joins a widening conversation about the fragility of life on the world's waterways.
Newlyweds killed in Venice lagoon boat-taxi collision
Two newlyweds killed; the woman's body was recovered from the lagoon, the man was pronounced brain-dead after hospitalization; an unborn child was lost.