A 59-year-old Swedish tourist died this Friday in the Seixal Sea, off the northern coast of Madeira, after being swept away by a wave, the Funchal Port Authority in charge of the search and rescue operation said. .
“We received the civil protection signal at 13:58 and the SANAS vessel was mobilized. [associação madeirense de socorro no mar]who was in Porto Moniz [costa norte] and the ship Instituto de Socorros a Náufragos, which left Funchal,” the same source said.
The search and rescue operation also involved two groups of “drones” – one from the Regional Civil Protection Service, the other from the Madeira Operational Command, which discovered the body of a Swedish tourist at 16:38.
According to the Captaincy of the Port of Funchal, it seems that the man was swept away by a wave in the Ribeira da Laje area, in the parish of Seixal, in the municipality of Porto Moniz, and the first warning was given to the authorities. with his woman.
This is the second body recovered this Friday at sea in Madeira.
At 12:58 p.m., authorities received a report of a body floating in Câmara de Lobos Bay, a municipality adjacent to Funchal to the west, which had been picked up by a vessel from the Instituto de Socorros a Náufragos.
It was not possible to determine the cause of death or the identity of this man, but it was reported in the regional press that he was also a citizen of a foreign country.