• Investigation The oceanographic vessel that will search for Anna and Olivia arrives in Tenerife

  • Disappearance Tomás Gimeno warned the mother of the disappeared girls in Tenerife: "It is one thing to leave the comfort zone and another to change the continent"

  • Mother's letter "I no longer have the strength, this is torture ..."

The oceanographic vessel equipped with a side-scan sonar and an underwater robot began work this Sunday afternoon to join the search for

Anna and Olivia

, the missing 1 and 6-year-old girls, like their father, the 27 April in

Tenerife

.

This morning the ship's staff held a meeting with the investigators to coordinate the search work and at 3:00 pm on Sunday the ship left port to begin tracking, sources of the investigation have informed Efe.

The ship of

the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)

Ángeles Alvariño

, docked since Saturday in the port of

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

, left

Galicia

and headed for the port of

Cádiz

, from which it left last Friday night.

The unmanned underwater robot

Liropus

travels aboard this vessel

, capable of maneuvering up to 2,000 meters deep, and which was used to observe the

Tagoro

underwater volcano

, off

La Restinga

(

El Hierro

).

Tracking the seabed

With this technology, the

Civil Guard will

track the underwater bottom in an area delimited by the geopositioning

of the 37-year-old

Tomás Antonio GC's

mobile

, obtained through a duplicate of his card, at dawn on April 28, hours after he lost the trail.

The cameras of the

Tenerife Marina

and a watchman saw him go out to sea for the second time with his boat at 00:30.

Before, he had entered the port alone with his car, from which he brought several suitcases and bags to his boat, and made his first foray into the sea.

When he was returning to port, the

Civil Guard

intercepted him and proposed him for sanction for skipping the curfew.

In the boat the agents did not find anything suspicious.

At that time, the girls' mother had not yet reported the disappearance of her daughters.

Hours later, the boat was found empty and adrift in front of the

Puertito de Güímar

, and, at the end, emergency teams found a child restraint used by

Anna

floating in the water

.

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