Missing yacht: a ship spotted flares in the area where they are looking for Argentines | The family asked to step up the search

Nail new track In search of the yacht that disappeared on September 28 when humanitarian aid returned to Haiti, it gave hope to the families of Renzo Spasiano (20) and Carlos Juárez (45), the Argentinian crew members who were on board. : a ship reported that on the night of Monday 4 it spotted flares in the waters of the Yucatan Canal, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico (off Holbox), and think, because of the location, that “it could be them”.

“Because of the location, it could be them, that’s why we need them to look for them”, Martin Juárez, Carlos’ brother, said on Thursday. “The problem that in two days in the Gulf of Mexico, they can be executed … So the search has to be done with several planes and boats. But no one comes to look for them, only Renzo’s father with a boat. will never be able to, ”lamented the man.

In the last hours, the families of Spasiano and Juárez have asked the Mexican navy to continue the search operation because they assure that after a week without leads, they have entered a process of “passive search“. We do not know if today or tomorrow Mexico wants to withdraw the research,” said Wednesday Liliana Zagari, Renzo’s mother, from Mexico.

Martín, older brother of Carlos Juárez, owner of the company that offers trips on luxury yachts in Playa del Carmen, claimed that “in Mexico they have stopped actively looking for them, which that means there were ships and planes looking for them, but now they’ve cut that tracking by a protocol at their disposal and only passive research remains “.

This implies, he explained, that “only if the ships that are out there on the high seas see them, the alarm is activated again and they are looking for it again by plane.” For Júarez, “that they search for them by air would be something logical” since “everything seems that they continue without drifting engines”.

The Cancun International Rescue Brigade, a humanitarian organization which collaborated in the operations, also confirmed that the Mexican authorities had decided to initiate a passive search.

For that, relatives faced fundraising to continue research in private. “I have a younger brother there and I here in Mendoza try to find as much money as possible. $ 5,000 to $ 20,000 per month. plane time, ”Juárez said.

The management of Puerto Aventuras, meanwhile, has issued a notice of reward of 10,000 dollars for those who give “decisive information” that allows the discovery of the missing yacht and her crew.

The yacht “MOI Guadalupe” lost contact on September 28 as it returned to the Mexican city of Puerto Aventuras, its home port, after a humanitarian aid mission in Haiti. Mexican Martín Vega Argaez, 44, and Cuban Denis Manuel Fernández Díaz, 46, were also traveling.