Sixth victim of shipwreck in Santa Catarina is found

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2023-06-19 00:54:22

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Sixth victim of shipwreck in SC is found

The sixth victim of the shipwreck off the coast of Santa Catarina was found this Sunday night (18) by Brazilian Navy teams. The Fishing Boat BP White Safe
”, sank on Friday night (16). Yesterday, five crew members were found alive, there are now two missing.

The man Deivid Luiz Monteiro Ferreira, found this Sunday, was brought in a Super Cougar aircraft, from navy
to the Florianópolis air base. He was then taken to Celso Ramos Hospital by the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU).

Ferreira was found 200 km off the coast of Santa de Catarina, according to the Navy iG
. The report contacted the hospital, which did not report on the health status of the crew member.

survivors

Yesterday, the Navy found five men around 10 pm about 160 km off the coast of Santa Catarina. According to authorities, all are in good health.

“The Thor Frigg vessel, under coordination of searches by Salvamar Sul, rescued alive and in good health, around 10 pm, five survivors of the fishing boat “Safadi Seif”, which sank off the coast of Santa Catarina, on 16 June,” the Navy said in a statement.

According to one of the survivors, the vessel’s cook, Luiz Carlos Messias da Silva, Deivid and two other missing people jumped off the boat first.

“They jumped first. We left to jump at the very end, when the vessel was sinking. It was a lot of struggle for us to survive and manage to get the buoy. There was no time for anything”, he reported.

Messias also said that the boat sank due to a strong wave.

“We were working, everything was calm, and then there was a very violent wave,” the survivor told NSC TV.

O shipwreck
took place on Friday night (16), after the region was hit by a cyclone, which caused heavy storms on the coast of Santa Catarina. The vessel disappeared near Coral Island, south of Florianópolis, 45 minutes from Garopaba.

To speed up the search for other victims, the Navy reinforced the rescue team on Saturday. Two ships were added to the teams and another two are expected to join this Sunday. A plane and two helicopters that departed from Rio de Janeiro are also collaborating with the searches.

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