 The rough seas and gale-force winds gave the men acute seasickness, and in some cases dehydration due to overheating.On 19 January 2007, the ship was taken under tow by the salvage tug "Abeille Bourbon", later joined by "Abeille Liberté".The vessel was to be towed to Portland Harbour in Dorset, distant; the closer ports of Falmouth, Cornwall and Plymouth, Devon were rejected in addition to others in France, although the Falmouth harbour master Captain Mark Sansom said he had confirmed that "Napoli" could have been accommodated in Falmouth Bay.