Relatives of the crew members of the Peyucsa 12 fishing vessel reported this afternoon that the Navy was unable to rescue the only crew member seen alive aboard that vessel that capsized 60 nautical miles (111 kilometers) north of Río Lagartos.
Although the Navy announced on the morning of October 10 that it located the boat with a crew member still alive, and even released a video of the ship captured from an aircraft, on the afternoon of the same day, family members assured that they were informed that the boat broke up and sank with everything and the crew member.
Mrs. Georgina Castellanos Espinosa stated an interview with local media that one of her children, who was traveling on the Navy plane that carried out the search overflight, saw from the air how the ship sank with the crew member, presumably his 20-year-old little brother Lázaro.
According to the brother of the deceased fisherman, an aircraft was flying over the boat on which his younger brother was for five hours. During all that time, the pilots asked the Mexican Navy for a ship to help the young man, but help never arrived.
Así fue hallada por la @SEMAR_mx una de las dos embarcaciones de pescadores extraviadas en #Yucatán tras el paso del huracán #Milton.
Es el Peyucsa 12 a 116 millas náuticas de Progreso, cerca de Río Lagartos con un sólo pescador aferrado a su lancha, faltan 3 de sus compañeros. pic.twitter.com/pUBBhx9OCo
— Martha Chasez (@dianachasez23) October 10, 2024
The young man contacted his mother by telephone and gave her the sad news, pointing out that he saw how the boat sank with the only survivor.
The woman reported that the person who appeared in the video was her son, the young Lázaro Esquivel Castellanos, 20 years old.
As is known, three fishermen were traveling on the Peyucsa 12, in addition to Lázaro, there were José Ulloa Patrón and Marcos García.
The distraught mother reproached the Mexican Navy for not arriving on time even though they requested support days ago. As happened with the Neldy boat, the Secretary of the Navy reported that they could not go out for any rescue “per protocol”, which generated criticism from the fishing sector against the institution.
Ports reopened to navigation after the hurricane only on Thursday the 10th. In addition to the Peyucsa 12, the Neldy and the Peyucsa 13 (which yesterday arrived in Progreso with all their crew safe) were also reported missing. The ship Halcón 1 is still missing, with four fishermen on board.
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