Find the missing diver's body in Ribadesella
Officials of Maritime Rescue and submarines of the GEAS of the Civil Guard had resumed this morning the search operation
Luis Ángel Vega 20.08.2017 | 11:13
The search operation made up of Rescue Martítimo and submarine personnel from the GEAS of the Civil
Guard
this morning found the dead body of the diver disappeared yesterday off the coast of Ribadesella.
The operative had resumed the work of search this morning, after yesterday did not obtain results.
Arístides Bécares Rivera, a 56-year-old Biscayne odontologist , had been missing since 10 am yesterday,
not returning from a dive to see the wreck of the Neretva , a Yugoslav flag wrecked just 25 years ago. Coast of Ribadesella.
Salvamento Marítimo
then began an operation to rescue the doctor , a native of Baracaldo, although resident in Guecho, which was added in the afternoon of yesterday
GEAS scouts of the Civil Guard . The crawl, very difficult, required submerging more than fifty meters.
Bécares and his six companions, all of them seasoned divers,
approached the spot where the wreck of the "Neretva" ore miner aboard the "Ereba" sports catamaran , based in Ribadesella. At nine o'clock in the morning they began the immersion, which was to last for an hour. The doctor's six companions returned to the surface and then realized that Bécares was not with them. At ten-fifteen hours notice was given to Salvamento Marítimo, who mobilized the Salvatório Marítimo helicopter, the "Helimer Cantábrico", as well as Salvamar "Sant Carles", based in Llanes, and the tug "Alonso de Chaves".
The tracking of these means did not give any result and already in the afternoon the divers of the Civil Guard were incorporated, While in the port of Ribadesella, totally sunk, awaited relatives and companions of the disappeared dentist. The members of the body of the Benemérita made several dives that did not allow to locate the missing person.
