Several crew members of a Spanish fishing boat, whose crew includes several Peruvian and Spanish citizens, died this Tuesday after the sinking of the ship, which was fishing in Canadian waters off Newfoundland, an official source reported.
The representative of the Government in the Spanish province of Pontevedra (northwest), Maica Larriba, assured that the Villa de Pitanxo fishing vessel sank last morning, according to the vessel’s beacon, with a crew made up of 22 people, although it was later confirmed 24 crew members and three who have been rescued alive.
Among the crew there are 16 people with Spanish nationality, according to the documentation of the shipping company, while the rest of the sailors would be natives of Peru and Ghana.
An hour before the sinking “contact with the ship’s blue box was lost,” he explained.
Three of the four life rafts were located hours after the event, Larriba added, but two of them were “completely empty” and the third carried only three survivors. Canadian authorities are trying to locate the fourth raft.
“The situation in the waters of Newfoundland was very bad,” stressed Larriba, who pointed out that also in the area “it is still dawning”, Therefore, the boats and helicopters of the Canadian rescue service “until very recently had no information.”
The three rescued crewmembers have “hypothermic shock,” according to the government representative, because the temperature of the water is very cold.
Several fishing vessels that were fishing in the area also participate in the rescue work, including one from Portugal and another from the town of Marín, in the province of Pontevedra, where the Villa de Pitanxo is based.
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Source: Gestion
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