5 kilometers from the coast, in a direct line with the Claromecó lighthouse, a group of fishermen participating in an excursion found
a body floating adrift
: it is believed to be
Federico Saihueque Cuevas
, 25 years old, who Sunday, January 21, he entered the sea by kayak and nothing else was heard from him.
Personnel from the Prefecture and the Tres Arroyos security secretariat work at the site, who launched the protocol to determine if the body belongs to the young man from Tres Arroyos.
Federico, who in the morning worked at a courier in Tres Arroyos and in the afternoon, as an entrepreneur, offered hairdressing and barbering services, rented a kayak at a dock on the Claromecó stream, known as Puerto Mosquito, and ignored the prohibition. to go into the sea.
"I only rent to navigate the stream," Hugo Cortés, the dealer, had told this newspaper.
That afternoon of Sunday the 21st, the man believed he had been the victim of a robbery.
The boy had left at 5 with the kayak, he was supposed to return at 6, and at 8 he had not returned.
Later, the security cameras confirmed that the young man did not row in the direction of the area of waterfalls that the stream has, he did it towards the mouth.
The last movements of Federico Saihueque, who rented a kayak in Claromecó, paddled out to sea and did not return.
Apparently, the flat sea on a windless afternoon tempted the boy to cross the surf and get into the sea.
"No one enters the sea unintentionally, on top of that it was calm on Sunday, and there was no wind like now, which blows from the north. There was almost no surf, it was a very easy time," said Cortés, the Puerto Mosquito concessionaire.
Saihueque was wearing a life jacket.
Two days after the boy's disappearance at sea, a coast guard from the Naval Prefecture found a kayak 19 miles from the coast with the same characteristics as the one he had rented in Saihueque. The owner confirmed that it was the same one he had rented. rented.
Mar del Plata. Correspondent
MG