Sixth shipwreck survivor in SC is rescued by the Navy

Earlier this Sunday evening (18), the Brazilian Navy reported that one of the three men who were still missing after the sinking of the fishing boat “BP Safadi Seif“, was found alive on the coast of Santa Catarina. The shipwreck had occurred on Friday night (16), and five other workers had already been found alive on Saturday night (17). Another two are still missing.

Recognized as Deivid Luiz Monteiro Ferreira, he was flown in an aircraft Super Cougarfrom the Brazilian Navy, to the Florianópolis air base, and was later taken to the Celso Ramos Hospital through the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU).

Captain Lieutenant Paiva Aguiar, pilot of the 2nd General Purpose Helicopter Squadron, reported that: “We were able to find the shipwrecked man attached to a fishing buoy, we made the approach, lowered the basket together with our divers and rescued the shipwrecked man. Initially he was in a lucid condition, dehydrated and adrift for two days. We brought him to the Florianópolis base, where there was a Samu base to receive him and give him first aid”.

According to the Navy, Deivid had severe hypothermia and was rescued about 200 kilometers off the coast of Santa Catarina. The first medical aid already on land was provided by a team from the Arcanjo helicopter, from the Military Fire Department of Santa Catarina.

The search ended on Sunday night and resumed on Monday (19). The two still missing are:

Alisson da Silva Santos

Diego Silva de Brito

One of the workers rescued on Saturday night, Luiz Carlos Messias da Silva, said that the three men who were still missing had jumped off the boat before the other workers.

The search for the still missing workers is concentrated in the area where the other five victims were rescued on Saturday (17), about 160 kilometers from the coast.

Luiz Carlos also stated that the boat flooded after a strong wave: “We were working, everything was quiet, then a very violent wave came” and “It wasn’t easy for us. The sea was very thick, the waves very strong. And we were on that raft. But, thank God, we managed to escape”.

The first five found, all healthy, were together in a small raft that had been taken by them. They were rescued by the towboat Thor Frigg, which assisted in the searches under the guidance of Salvamar Sul, a Navy unit that coordinates and carries out search and rescue operations at sea in the region.

The survivors found at first were taken to dry land and disembarked on Sunday morning in Itajaí, on the North Coast of Santa Catarina. They were: Luiz Carlos Messias da Silva, Zoel Teixeira Barros, Domingos Pereira do Rosário, Mário Gomes Soares and Djalma dos Santos Silva.

The fishing boat sank on Friday night (16), when the last contact had been made 40 kilometers off the coast of the municipality of Garopaba, on the southern coast of Santa Catarina.

According to the Port Authority, the searches began on the same night.

Silvio Luís dos Santos, commander of the 5th Naval District, said at a press conference that the Brazilian Navy had issued an alert the day before about the effects of an extratropical cyclone passing through the sea.

Featured photo: Rescue of shipwreck survivors. Reproduction/Disclosure/CBM-SC via Correio Braziliense