Also traveling on the plane chartered by the Spanish Ministry of Defense to bring back the eight Spanish crew members who emerged alive from the wreck of the Argus Georgia last Tuesday were seven of the eight survivors of other nationalities who were part of the long-haul crew in that incident. The ship’s owner, Argus Froianis, explained in a statement that they will disembark in Madrid and will be taken care of until they can return to their countries of origin “as soon as possible.”
The bodies of the nine deceased, including the fishing captain, César Acevedo from Vigo, and the cook Santiago Leyenda, from Baiona, are still in the custody of the Malvinas Forensic Medicine and, as directly confirmed by the government delegate, Pedro Blanco, their families are expected to be transferred to Oxfordshire tomorrow to carry out autopsies, taking advantage of the weekly Tuesday route of a military plane between the archipelago and the United Kingdom. There, “all the procedures established by the British authorities” will be followed, with the aim of completing the operation “as quickly as possible”. Those around them have been waiting for days for news of the steps that will be taken and when.
Argos Froyanes belongs to the Argos group and the Norwegian company Ervik Havfiske, which yesterday also confirmed through a statement that another of its ships, the Argos Helena, has already arrived in the wreck area to support the air resources and the work carried out by the Pharos. It is searching for the four missing people. Two of them are Antonio Barreiro Turia, from Noya, and Juan Antonio García Rey, from Ribera.
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