A female biologist has survived while eight others have died and five more are still missing after their British-Norwegian ship sank near the Falkland Islands.
These are the latest figures regarding the sinking of the vessel after British media said that 14 had been rescued, with seven still missing and six feared dead.
Amparo Burguillos Perez, from Socovos, in Albacete, in Spain, who was an observer on the expedition of the fishing vessel that was trying to find black hake in the area, survived the deadly storm that sunk the fishing boat.
She reportedly works at the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology and Hydrology at the University of Murcia in Spain.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said that of the 27 crew members on the fishing boat, 10 were Spanish; there were 14 survivors, eight dead and five missing, according to Spanish government officials in Galicia.
The Argentine government has not yet publicly released the death toll from the sinking of the fishing boat ‘Argos Georgia’ with 27 crew members on board.
The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley, the capital of the British archipelago, is ready to receive survivors for medical assessment, the Spanish authorities said.
According to Falklands authorities, the shipwreck occurred on Monday afternoon “about 200 nautical miles (370 kilometres) east of Stanley,” the government of this British territory said in a statement posted on Facebook.
Burguillos Perez says of herself on Facebook: “Since I was a child, raised in a mountain village , my passion for nature has made my love for it a social and ethical commitment, and an urgent need to dedicate myself professionally to it, in order to generate social awareness through knowledge, dissemination and respectful leisure.”
Rescue teams are reportedly scouring the South Atlantic looking for survivors after the vessel experienced “uncontrolled flooding”.
The statement was made as it was revealed 14 fishermen in lifeboats from the vessel had been rescued off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
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