Sunday morning was tragic for four people on a pleasure boat in Troy. So far, only one crew member has been saved alive; two people were found dead, two more were missing.
Francisco Neves was the youngest of the team, only 13 years old, and he was fishing with his father, Ricardo Neves. The child’s body has already been discovered, lifeless.
Shipwreck
The boat will sink at 7:00 am, but this is only a warning. reached authorities around 10:00 am.
ABOUT The first to be pulled out of the water was the helmsman of the Lingrinhas, a 62-year-old man. Later, around 2:20 p.m., the bodies of the two victims were recovered from the water.
One of the bodies was recovered by a NCIS boat and the other was spotted by an Air Force helicopter, both bodies were located near the wreck.
Francisco Neves, 13, one of the dead, had gone fishing with his father, Ricardo Neves.
According to the National Maritime Administration, the ship was carrying a man about 45 years old (Jose), his 13-year-old son (Francisco) and two young men.
Residents of Grandola mourn with great emotion what happened and talk about “a very big tragedy.”
My son asked me to go fishing
Francisco, the rescued victim, asked his father, who had gone to sea on Saturday, to go fishing with him. The next day the father returned to Troy and took with him, in addition to his son, his brothers Gabriel and Jose.
The boat used on Saturday did not have room for Francisco, so he was unable to go to the ocean that day.
The minor was rescued with the help of a life jacket on Sunday. The other rescued victim did not use it.
An investigation into the incident has been opened
The investigation into the deaths is being carried out by the Setúbal Marine Police and was handed over to the ministry on Sunday to remove the bodies and carry out an autopsy.
The investigation into the maritime disaster was launched this Monday by the captain of the port of Setúbal, Commander Serrano Augusto.
The story of the only survivor saved
The helmsman of the sunken ship said that the sea had “grown a lot” and that the ship had been capsized by a wave. He emphasized that as soon as the boat sank, he never saw the other four people.
The man explained that the accident happened very quickly and he did not have time to do anything. He added that he did not know the crew who were planning to go sport fishing.
The bodies have already been identified
Two bodies already found after the tragedy off Troy, when a sport fishing boat capsized and two people went missing, have already been identified by their families.
They are Francisco Neves, 13, and Gabriel Caeiro.
Bishop prays for victims
The Bishop of Setúbal, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, responded to the flooding.Troy Square. The cardinal said “prayers” go out to the families of the missing.
“As we learn of the shipwreck off Troy this morning, our prayers go out to the castaways, their families and the various security, civil defense and fire agents. May Mary, Lady of Troy, Lady of Arrabida, intercede for your son, Lord Bonfim, for the salvation of these brothers of ours,” said Bishop Setubal.
Search in different ways
The search for the missing crew resumed this morning in Praia Atlantica. Maritime Police and Portuguese Navy personnel were on site with boats, drones and ships.
The search by sea, land and air will resume on Tuesday, Setubal port captain and local maritime police chief Serrano Augusto said, adding that the perimeter would be expanded.
“We’re going to extend the search a little further to eight nautical miles, about 15 kilometers, both north and west of the position” where the ship was signaled to sink, he explained.
This decision was made because during the work carried out “there were no reports of sightings either from the personnel involved in the search or from other vessels sailing in the area,” he explained.
Therefore, on Tuesday, “at dawn, at 7:30 am”, the operation will be resumed and should cover the area “as far south as Praia da Comporta”. According to him, the Navy patrol ship NRP Viana do Castelo will be replaced by NRP Sines.
“We will have a lifeboat, an all-terrain vehicle that will travel on the sand, and two drones, one from the National Maritime Administration, the other from the Naval Operational Experiment Center, which will work in rotation,” he said, noting that these assets involve participation elements of the Maritime Police, the ASM and the Portuguese Navy.
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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