Indonesian Authorities Recover Body During Search for Drowned Spanish Soccer Coach and His Children
Rescue teams found a body near Serai island amid ongoing searches for Fernando Martin and three children after their boat sank due to engine failure in Komodo National Park.
- On Monday , rescue teams recovered a body near Serai island about 0.6 miles from the sinking during the search for Valencia CF Women's B coach Fernando Martin and his three children.
- The tour boat sank after engine failure on Friday evening during a family holiday in Komodo National Park, and searchers say strong currents, heavy rain and high waves complicate recovery.
- Divers carried out two deep-water dives between 18-28 metres and found no additional victims, while nearly 100 personnel supported by police and navy combed four sectors within a doubled nine-kilometre radius.
- On the search's fourth day, Indonesian authorities said Andrea Martin, Mar and other survivors are in good health while Indonesian law requires searches to last seven days.
- Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, attracts thousands of international visitors and rescuers expanded searches around Padar island and nearby small islands including Serai, Pengah, Papagarang, Siaba Besar and northern Kanawa island.
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The fifth day of searching for the three Spaniards who remain missing in the Indonesian Sea since last Friday after shipwrecking the tourist boat has concluded this Tuesday “without relevant results”. “However, the families want to express our satisfaction at the progressive increase of the human and technical means deployed in the device”, add in a statement the relatives of the three people not yet located: Fernando Martín, coach of Valencia C…
Indonesian authorities recover body during search for drowned Spanish soccer coach and his children
Indonesian rescuers on Monday found a body during the search for Spanish soccer coach Fernando Martin and his children after their boat sank near the coast of a popular tourist spot on Friday, the country's rescue agency said.
Indonesian authorities have announced Monday the discovery of the body of the 12-year-old girl member of a missing Valencian family in Labuan Bajo, in the...
The world of sport is in mourning for the unexpected death of Fernando Martín, former footballer and coach of Valencia FC Femenino B, along with three of his sons in a shipwreck on Padar Island, Indonesia. Spanish media Europa Press detailed that Martín was travelling in Komodo National Park with his wife and four children. During the visit, they took a tourist boat on Friday, 26 December. Witnesses reported that the boat sank quickly, being tra…
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