A yacht with two Argentines missing: they had brought humanitarian aid to Haiti

a I have already in which they were traveling two Argentinian citizens it is found faded away since Tuesday 28. They had been gone since Carmen Beach, in the Caribbean Sea, toward Haiti will provide humanitarian aid and had to return to Mexico, but never reached the port.

It is a modern boat called “ME Guadalupe“, which was piloted by the Argentines Renzo Spasiano, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Juárez, 45 and owner of the ship, as well as a Cuban citizen, Martin Alejandro Vega Argae, who played the role of captain, and another Mexican, Denis Manuel Fernández Díaz ,.

The ship had delivered to Haiti the aid collected by various NGOs and had to reach the Mexican island of Cozumel last Wednesday.

In research, the Argentine Embassy in Mexico and the Playa del Carmen Consulate, in collaboration with the Mexican navy authorities and the harbor master’s office of Cozumel.

The yacht had her last communication about 130 miles from Cozumel, without reporting any news, a few hours after arrival. There were no climatic conditions and no other type of problem has been reported.

According to the Foreign Office, in a statement, “the 83-foot-long, white, Hatteras vessel was last located at latitude 19, 74.4’N and longitude 084 40.4’W, 130 nautical miles from its final destination on Port of Cozumel, Quintana Roo, which was due to arrive on September 29 at 11 a.m. “.

As told Luis Spasiano, father of Renzo, the young Argentinian who was taken on as a sailor, the yacht transported “Remedies and food” in Haiti. “It’s an 83ft yacht. They left Quintana Roo, with no problem. They loaded fuel, food and started the return trip. They were refueled in the port of Jamaica, bound for Mexico“, he told the channel TN.

In addition, he pointed out that in the boat “they carried a satellite phone and a global positioning team that signals every 20 minutes, with the location. This is why the road could be watched. “

“They had communication with a captain who is in Miami and they said the weather was fine, with no storms or wind, the the sea was calm. All in optimal conditions, but after 20 minutes the positioner and communication are cut off“he added.

Liliana, the young sailor’s mother, said that several planes, some of which were privately hired by relatives, they flew over the area due to the possibility that the yacht was adrift. The young man’s father even participated today in the overflight of the area where the yacht disappeared.

“These are all presumptions, we have nothing specific. The vessel was in great condition and had arrived on time and in good shape where it needed to be. The weather had worked in their favor, there had been no tropical storm. news of what could have happened, ”he said.

The two Argentines live in Puerto Aventuras, about 10 kilometers from Playa del Carmen, where Juárez has a yacht company where Spasiano works.

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