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Date Published: 16/02/2022

ARCHIVED - Ten dead after Spanish fishing boat sinks off coast of Canada

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Eleven people are still missing in the “greatest fishing tragedy in 40 years”

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Ten dead after Spanish fishing boat sinks off coast of Canada

Several crew members of a Galician fishing boat died and many more are still missing after the vessel sank in the frigid waters of Newfoundland in the early hours of Tuesday morning, February 15. The control centre lost contact with the boat at 5am when the Spanish trawler Villa de Pitanxo was around 250 miles from the coast of the Canadian Island.

Twenty-four people were on board – sixteen Spaniards, two Ghanaians and six Peruvians. Ten bodies have been recovered from the water and eleven are still missing in what has been described as the “greatest fishing tragedy in 40 years”.

Three sailors, Juan Padin, aged 53, his nephew Eduardo Rial, 42; and an unidentified third party are, at the moment, the only survivors of the Villa de Pitanxo shipwreck. The doomed vessel managed to launch four lifeboats before the boat sank; the survivors were discovered on one of the lifeboats in a state of hypothermic shock, but the other three dinghies were empty.

See also: Murcia bans fishing until March 27

The temperature of the water off the coast of Canada can drop to as little as 3ºC at this time of year and as the hours since the tragedy struck tick by, the hope of finding any more survivors dwindles.

“The situation in the waters of Newfoundland was very bad,” explained Maica Larriba, a Government sub-delegate in Pontevedra, adding that several fishing vessels in the area have joined in the search.

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