The relatives of the crew members of the Spanish fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo are experiencing the most distressing moments of their lives: they still have no news about the rescue of the ship that capsized in Canadian waters early Tuesday morning.
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One of the missing sailors is the Peruvian Jonathan Calderon, 39, who worked almost his entire life on this ship. From Pontevedrain Galiciahis aunt Elizabeth came very worried to the Nores shipowner in Marin to obtain information on the whereabouts of his nephew, said The voice of Galicia.
“This is a tragedy, there is my nephew who has two children aged 14 and 10, we don’t know anything, we can only pray”, she pointed out through tears. “Since he arrived in Spain, he has been working on the boats. This fishing (Villa de Pitanxo) has been his boat all his life”.
Jonathan’s wife was about to board a flight for vacation, but Elizabeth had them call her and had to come back from the airport.
“I received a call from a friend who had heard information and I came to find out. The ship has been sailing for more than a month.” continuous.
“They are neighbors of Marín. Her wife was going to travel abroad, but they told her about her and they are bringing her from the airport. The family (in Peru) still doesn’t know anything, imagine when they find out.”
The pain left by the news of the shipwreck also reached the family of William Arevalo Perezanother 37-year-old Peruvian sailor who has two children, ages 11 and 4.
Your uncle Carlos Ordonez told the local press that in his family “We are very overwhelmed, we don’t know if they are alive or dead.” William is Jonathan’s partner.
“We have been in Marín all our lives, we arrived from Peru 21 years ago and since William started working, he goes to the sea”, lamented Ordóñez, who found out the news this morning when he was accompanying a relative to the health center.
Ordonezalso a fisherman, is part of the crew of the Nuevo Morriña, but his task is almost always carried out in the cauldron of Ireland. “One of my colleagues has a son in the Villa de Pitanxo and he is on the high seas. He doesn’t know anything. I have spoken with our shipowner to notify him to call home, “explained Ordóñez.
Natural sailors from Ghana also sailed in the crew of Peruvians and Spaniards. “I have four friends from Ghana on the boat, they live between Marín and Pontevedra, they have family and children”said Joshua, a neighbor of Marinabout the crew members who were on the Villa of Pitanxo.
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