Survivors of the submerged Spanish fishing boat arrived in Montevideo – Actualidad

Montevideo – The body of a deceased and 16 of the 25 survivors of the wreck of the Spanish fishing boat Dorneda of the Freiremar company that took place last Wednesday at 570 kilometers from the Argentine coast arrived in Montevideo on the ship Farruco, "Thank God we are here, perhaps because of the experience we have at sea and also for some of our colleagues who have had the calm and patience" said Peruvian survivor Luis to the press. Eduardo Namuche

The submerged ship was carrying 27 people of Spanish, Peruvian, Moroccan and Indonesian nationality, one of whom was found dead aboard one of the life rafts in which the crew was was rescued and another still found missing

The sailor also noted that you can not "explain what it is to live a shipwreck" and said that after the sinister Spanish flag vessel had to wait almost half-past five in a raft in which they were not safe because of the big waves.

Namuche also regretted the death of one of his companions and the disappearance of another and stressed that "maybe" there were "negligence" "I apologize to the Henry's family, a companion who has sailed for many years with us, he loved us as a mother because he cooked us, gave us our food (…) but that's why I'm sorry because we could not do more, the only thing we could save was his body, but no more, "he added.

Regarding the sinking, the sailor told that the trancanil" and in realizing warned the "boss" to make "the maneuver that is always done, which is to straighten the boat, so that normal water can spread and the pumps can run".

"Little by little, the ship scoured more, more, more and when we saw that the ballano was impossible, we ran to the rafts," said the shipwrecked.

Another survivor, also Peruvian Juan Pablo Mazas, told the media that he was sleeping when the incident occurred, but when he heard the screams of his companions left his hut .

"We saw the boat goinfler, the water started to enter and there was no lifeguard suit. There was nothing there. And then we started throwing ourselves in the rafts.

Similarly, Mazas pointed out that "the first one to jump on the raft was the captain. "

Not only friends and family received the traumatized sailors, since the consuls of Spain and Peru also settled there

José Rodríguez, consul general of Spain in Uruguay , said that he was going to the port of Montevideo to see "what these Spanish citizens needed." [19659003] For its part, the chief of the consular section of the Embbady of Peru in Uruguay, Olga Victoria Lukashevich, received the shipwrecked with bags full of clothes

"Unfortunately there is a deceased Peruvian and we will try to do all the practical procedures for the repatriation of the mortal remains," added the diplomat.

The remaining nine survivors arrived today at the port of Mar del Plata (400 kilometers south of Buenos Aires) aboard the Argentine fishing vessel Beagle I.

The spokesman of the Uruguayan Navy , Marcelo Etchevers, explained that " on 6 July, the Spanish flag ship Dorneda left the port of Montevideo, its port of call, to perform fishing tasks ". Five days later, this ship sank "for reasons that are not yet known."

He also explained that the Argentine Navy was the one that resumed the operation by its research center and rerouted "two of the" Although the reasons for the sinking have not yet been confirmed, the carrier Argentine Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi reported on the Argentine chain Todo Noticias that investigations indicate that "a lot of water would have entered" in the engine room when collecting fishing nets, which, added to the "bad weather", would have stopped the engines.