Yucatan, Mexico /
At least three fishermen They were rescued after their boat sank in the waters of the “Emerald Coast” of Yucatanas a result of the effects of the tropical storm Nadine.
in a video recorded by a fisherman who was aboard the Propemex 14 vessel, the moment was captured when three of his colleagues They floated among the high wavessupporting only drums.
Among the cries of the fishermen, you hear: “Don’t despair, let’s go“, while the boat approximates them.
In the same video you can hear the voice of a fisherman who asks them: “How many are there?”, to which, from afar, one of the castaways manages to respond: “There were five of us, but we lost two“.
The fishermen who were shipwrecked were traveling on the boat San Crisanto Xwhich ended up at the bottom of the sea. In the video, which lasts a little more than two minutes, the fishermen comment among themselves: “He’s Lucas’s cousin, he’s from the band“.
Subsequently, it is observed how they throw a lifeline orange color less than two meters from the boat to help them to go up
He sunken ship It was based at the La Caleta dock, in Puerto Progreso, the same place where the boats anchored. PEYUCSA 12 and Halcón 1in which eight fishermen disappeared last week during the passage of the hurricane Milton.
“In the early hours of Wednesday morning The San Crisanto X ship sankthey were with five crew members, three fellow fishermen were rescued, who tied themselves to some buoys, who spent 15 hours at sea and fortunately they were rescued by a larger vessel that was approaching the port due to bad weather,” he said. Lila FriasYucatán Fisheries Secretariat, by telephone.
He sunken ship It was based at the La Caleta dock, in Puerto Progreso, msame place where the boats PEYUCSA 12 and Halcón 1, in which eight fishermen disappeared due to the passage of the hurricane Milton.
To this adds the search for two other fishermen that they disappeared when they were heading to the Alacranes reef; they They were on the Relax boat.
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