Another fisherman from a boat that sank 180km off the coast of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina during Friday’s cyclone was found alive clinging to a signal buoy after being in the water for 48 hours. David Luis Monteiro Ferreira, 38, was severely malnourished, dehydrated and hypothermic as Brazil experienced a cold wave far above normal for several days.
It was a research vessel that joined the rescue teams, as did many official and private vessels that found David on Sunday evening, already very close to unconsciousness, 20 km from the crash site. The previous Saturday, the tugboat had already found five other crew members of the fishermen alive on the makeshift raft, but there was no sign of the presence of the other two members of the vessel’s crew until this Monday afternoon.
A fishing boat with eight crew members disappeared from radar on Friday night during a cyclone that hit the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul with winds of more than 200 km, and also affected Santa Catarina. The location of five crew members alive on Saturday and a sixth on Sunday revived the hope of all those involved in finding the two fishermen alive, even as the bad weather continues in the region, with very high waves, high winds and the lowest temperatures. , lows of the year.