The President of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, announced this Monday that two crew members of the Villaboa 1 have died when the ship sank off the coast of Cabo Mayor this morning, seven have been rescued and one is missing.
"Once again, a new misfortune at sea. This morning at 5:30 a.m., the Villaboa 1, based in Santander, has been shipwrecked off the coast of Cabo Mayor," Revilla lamented on Twitter.
The Cantabrian president has indicated that the crew consisted of 10 people: there are two deceased, seven rescued and one missing. "Rest in peace", Revilla concluded his message.
The ship was near Cabo Mayor, at the northern end of Santander Bay, the Cantabrian capital, when it sank for reasons that are still unknown.
The government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, told Cadena Ser that the deceased are a Spaniard and a Ghanaian, while the missing person is a Peruvian national. According to Quiñones, one of the seven rescued crew members is in serious condition.
"Terrible news," the Spanish Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, wrote on Twitter, who said she hoped that "the search for the missing crew member (...) will bring good news."
The last great fishing tragedy suffered by Spain occurred on February 15, 2022, when the ship "Villa de Pitanxo" sank 450 km from the island of Newfoundland, in Canada, with 24 crew members, of whom only three survived. Nine bodies were recovered from the sea and the other twelve crew members of the fishing boat, based in the port of Marín, Galicia (northwest), disappeared.
The fishing vessel foundered after "a sudden stoppage of the main engine, which left the ship without propulsion or steering, exposed to the wind and waves," explained the Spanish company Nores, owner of the vessel, which was manned by 16 Spaniards. five Peruvians and three Ghanaians.
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