The Falklands maritime authority believes that the ship Argos Georgia collision with a block of ice half submerged and caused the ship to sink, killing nine people. Four others are still missing and the remaining 13 crew members have been rescued alive.
The Galician fishing boat was able to having collided head-on with one of the many ice blocks that form in that area in winterthe period that is currently going through the southern hemisphere. At first, the possibility that the ship collided with a container was also considered, but this possibility was ruled out as there were no reports of any ship that had lost its cargo. Thus, the collision with the ice block would have caused a leak in the boat.
The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, explained that the causes of the shipwreck are unknown and that the investigations are now the responsibility of the Malvinas maritime authority. At the time of the water leak, the ship was in the middle of a fierce storm, with winds of 35 knots and waves of between five and six meters.
The ship was designed to navigate in extreme ice conditions, and according to The voice of Galiciathe collision with a block of ice is a reason that It seems ruled outFor this reason, Blanco hopes that the survivors’ statements will help clarify what happened.
The spokesman for the affected families, Jos Manuel Pena, has confirmed that the survivors are well and admitted to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in the Falklands capital. They all have various bruises after spending 20 hours on a raft at sea, facing seven-metre waves that caused the boat to capsize twice and threw the crew into waters with temperatures of four degrees.
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