Ship spotted flares in area where they search for Argentines lost in Mexican waters

A light of hope. Never better applied the saying. This is what ignited in these hours in the families of the two Argentines who on board a yacht and with two other crew members got lost in the waters of Mexico.

The families of Renzo Spasiano (20) and Carlos Juárez (45), the Argentinian crew members of the missing yacht, have insisted in recent hours that the Mexican navy continue the operation to find them since they ensure that after a week without traces they entered a process of “passive research”.

After this affirmation, information gave them hope. A boat reported seeing on the night of Monday 4 flares in the waters of the Yucatan Canal, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico (off Holbox). A sign that could have come from a drifting boat.

“Due to the location, it could be them, that’s why we need you to look for them, ”he said. Bugle this Thursday Martín Juárez, Carlos’s brother,

“The problem that in two days in the Gulf of Mexico can be executed … So the search has to be done with several planes and boats. But no one comes looking for them, only Renzo’s father with a boat. Not like that. .they will never be able to, ”notes Juárez.

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

“We don’t know when Mexico will withdraw the search,” said Liliana Zagari, mother of Renzo, the young man who was aboard MOI Guadalupe, the yacht missing since September 28, from Mexico.

Martín, older brother of Carlos Juárez – owner of the company that offers trips on luxury yachts in Playa del Carmen – said that “in Mexico they have stopped actively looking for them, which means that there was boats and planes that were looking for them, but now they’ve cut that monitoring by a protocol they have and there’s only passive research left. “

This passive search, as he explained, means that “only if the ships that are out there on the high seas see them, the alarm is activated again and they search for it again by plane.”

To “ME Guadalupe” Mexican Martín Vega Argaez, 44, and Cuban Denis Manuel Fernández Díaz, 46, were also traveling.

The yacht 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.

“It would be logical for them to search for them by air, everything seems to be going on without drifting engines,” Juarez said hopefully. For this, relatives had to face a fundraising to continue the research in private.

“I have a younger brother over there and I here in Mendoza try to find as much money as possible and we hope the bank will switch us to the official dollar to raise as much as we can, being since costs range from $ 5,000 to $ 20,000 per plane, “the man from Mendoza said.

Puerto Aventuras management has issued a $ 10,000 award notice for anyone providing “breakthrough information” leading to the discovery of MOI Guadalupe.

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