The body of a 55-year-old man was found this Sunday floating in the water near the beach of Cova do Vapor, Costa de Caparica, but resuscitation operations were unsuccessful, a source at the National Maritime Administration said.
According to a spokesman for the National Maritime Administration (ANM), at 6:30 p.m., “information was received through the Maritime Operations Center” that “a body was floating” on Cova do Vapor beach, an “unguarded beach.”
Following the warning, the resources of the SeaWatch project, the ANM, the Praia Protegida project, the Almada City Council, the Maritime Police of the Costa de Caparica and “lifeguards from the nearby beach” were mobilized.
Rescue and assistance services extracted from the water “a man of Portuguese citizenship, 55 years old, carried out resuscitation measures, but to no avail,” explained the AMN representative.
The body was transported by Casillas volunteer firefighters to the National Institute of Forensic and Forensic Medicine in Lisbon, and “a team of NCIS psychologists was deployed to assist family members who were also at the scene,” police added. same source.
According to the website of the National Emergency Service and Civil Protection, 10 operational personnel and six land resources were mobilized in the “search and rescue of people in the water” operation in the Union of Caparica and Trafaria parishes.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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