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Looks like all are safe. Maybe a loose clamp on an exhaust port or some other thru hull cock.
| Tourist yacht sinks |
   Around 13 hours, people connected to the services of nautical tourism, filtered it up to the ecological park of Punta Sur, had they raised the sinking of a boat named "Albatros Charters" with tourists on board, which personnel of the Navy was the rescue of the crew and visitors. regard, Alfonso Rodríguez Loaiza, harbor master reported that afternoon at 12:40 hours the report received by radio on channel 16 VHF marine band captain of the vessel "Old Iron", informing them that the vessel "Albatross" had sunk completely in the Punta Sur (without giving coordinates.) The vessel "Albatross" was in command under Captain Rafael Moo, who along with it numbered three crew members, and two tourists from not announced the sex or nationality, and that all these people aboard the sunken ship were safe and were transshipped to the motorboat " Real Music "that was nearby. The Port gave notice to the staff of the Naval Station Search and Rescue Cozumel (Ensar), which sent staff to the Navy aboard a boat type "Defender" support in which they had to perform. said the sunken vessel is a yacht with enrollment 2304022214-7, Caterpillar diesel engine type 520 horsepower each, registered to "Albatros Charters, SA de CV "certified maritime security force until October 7, 2014, which was providing the service of diving. At the Naval Sector Cozumel was announced that the sunken vessel was 42 feet long (12.8 meters) for 12 feet wide (3.6 meters) and was registered to the company "Cozumel Snorkel and Sunset" and the owner only identified as Rita. Rodríguez Loaiza said by Tuesday afternoon, nothing else know that the "Albatros "I was performing a diving activity time of the accident, without reason or real motive for sinking is known, and will be until the captain of the ship approaching to submit its report, when known what happened. denied having knowledge how far from shore the boat was at the time of sinking, only he was giving a service of diving, which is not known what the reef is near the point of collapse and whether to go for the seabed if it was deposited on a reef or sand, it is not known of any dumping of oil into the sea, although staff the Navy and worked to rule that there is any fluid fuel. At the Naval Sector reported that boat was 35 meters to the sea, although some data indicated that was 100 meters, however, marine, considered the actual depth is 35 meters. Similarly noted that tourists and crew were transferred to the Puerto de Abrigo "Sandy Bank", at your request, mostly because the "Albatross" was on guard in the natural sea. Meanwhile the harbor master, considers two factors which must be taken off the boat afloat, one because their tanks containing fuel and should not be in the bottom of the sea to avoid any contamination, the other is because it believes that its engines are expensive, and with a washed and lubricated again be operating. officer himself, thinks it is subject another reality, that the breaking of a valve or something unforeseen was what caused the collapse. Something similar is what we say in the Marine Sector, where the assumption is that there was a break in the exhaust of the jet engine, causing it began to take on water in the boat. For now, in the Port the minutes of the accident by the captain of the boat waiting for "us to see what had caused it, what responsibility, what documents have to To get a fine if any, and if not, see if it was exactly an accident caused by nature, "Rodríguez Loaiza settled. Sector In Naval reported that the location of the dive shop "Albatros Charters" is located on the Avenue Rafael E. Melgar south between 5 and 7, although store employees in the area denied knowing his location, and you do not see any site with the logo of the business at that point. |
