The Salvamar Alnitak rescue boat, the Red Cross boat ‘LS Cronos’ and a Frontex plane resumed early this Thursday morning the search for the two young people missing since last Tuesday off the coast of Marbella, in Malaga. , when the 6.5 meter long fiber boat in which they were sailing suffered an engine failure.
Sources from the Ministry of Transport indicate that the work to find both individuals, aged 26 and 31 who had gone fishing, is centered about 30 miles south of Malaga. To do this, the Salvamar Alnitak will head east, towards Almería, while the Red Cross boat will go towards the coast of the Malaga town of Benalmádena.
It was a person who was on land who reported this Tuesday around 8:00 p.m. that he had seen two men from the land providing help after the 6.5 meter long boat Budión’ ran out of engine, about 20 miles from Marbella. .
When the information was received, the search began in the area, for which the Salvamar Gadir boat and the Helimer 223 helicopter were mobilized, although the search ended without any positive results, and on Wednesday the Salvamar Hamal ship joined.
Maritime Rescue tried to contact the mobile phones of the missing people, but they did not give a signal, and notified the marinas where the missing people could have arrived and the boats sailing in the area.
