Ernest Azarkevich
09/13/2021 9:45 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/13/2021 9:45 AM
After three days of intense raking, the Prefecture of the Correntina city of Goya found the body of one of the fishermen who had disappeared on Thursday afternoon when the boat in which he was sailing with five friends, with whom he had planned, sank. share a day of fishing.
The victim was identified as Leonardo Contardo, 52, who lived in Ingeniero Budge (Lomas de Zamora) and was known as "
El León Norteño
."
He had a cumbia group called "Tropical 90".
The Prefecture maintains the raking operation because
Rodrigo Matías Servín (32) has yet to be found
.
Rescuers said that as days went by, they considered it unlikely that it had managed to reach the mainland after the boat sank in the Paraná River.
They found the body of one of the fishermen.
Five friends who live in Buenos Aires traveled to Goya last week to rest and visit friends and family.
On Thursday afternoon, after sharing a barbecue, they boarded a boat of almost six meters in length but little depth, to cross to an island, where they planned to camp and share a couple of days of fishing.
The group boarded the “María Ofelia” boat, owned by Escolástico Ávalos (54), and set out without noticing that the strong south wind that was blowing at that time had generated significant waves in the river.
When the ship powered by a very low power outboard motor reached the deepest part of the river, at kilometer 965, water began to enter the bow and quickly sank.
Leonardo Contardo (52), "El León Norteño", drowned in the Paraná River.
The six occupants began swimming to try to reach the coast of the island known as "El Alisal", but two of them quickly disappeared from the surface because
they could not swim and had not put on life jackets
.
A boat from the Prefecture that received the request for help rushed to the scene and was able to rescue four of the occupants, who suffered no injuries.
Some had reached shore and others were afloat in the water.
In addition to Contardo and the still-disappeared Servín, Lucas Ezequiel Contardo (20), son of the first;
Sandro Gabriel Ojeda (50), the helmsman Ávalos and Juan Sidonio López (56).
EMJ
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