Vigo, June 5 The families of the victims of the Villa de Pitanxo, a ship sunk in Newfoundland waters in February last year, received “with surprise” the news that the ship Ártabro has already completed the tasks inspection of the sunken wreck and is back in Vigo.
“This news was greeted with surprise, we didn’t even know it could have ended,” the families’ spokeswoman María José de Pazo told reporters on Monday.
“What they tell us is that what they had recorded was sufficient and they also told us that the images were clear, that the good weather had accompanied the recording, and we do not know the times that the robot was recording,” he added.
They have told the families that the result is “positive” for the open court case, and now they are waiting for these records to be handed over to the National Court and forensic experts to issue the mandatory report.
The Ártabro set sail on May 17 from the port of Vigo with the mission of inspecting the bottom of Canadian waters where the Pitanxo sank, 450 kilometers from Newfoundland, an incident that claimed the lives of 21 of the 24 crew members. ‘crew.
The families of the crew members who died in the sinking have since been fighting to investigate what happened to sink the ship and one of their main demands was that he be lowered onto the wreckage at the search for evidence that would illuminate to explain the accident. . ECE
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