The research system launched by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Huelva (CCS Huelva) to find the young man who disappeared last Tuesday 24 at dawn in the area of Punta Umbria was canceled until the identification of a body found Saturday afternoon by members of the Civil Guardat the mouth of the Guadalquivir River.
This was explained to Europa Press by Maritime Rescue sources, who specified that the armed institute found the body in the mouth of the Guadalquivir around 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon, as informed by the GC, who then collected the body to transfer it to the Municipality of Cádiz. Chipiona.
Concretely, the notice of disappearance reached the CCS Huelva on Tuesday at 3:11 a.m. from a friend of the missing person, who warned of the possible sinking of a five meter long boatsix miles south of Punta Umbria, although it was later corrected that it might have been “two or three miles”.
Since then, a search has been carried out, canceled until the identification of the aforementioned body, in which the Salvamar Alkaid and the Ship Maria Zambrano and by air a drone from European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the Helimer 220 helicopter.
