A town that holds its breath: "It is a tragedy of a magnitude that we did not remember"

• Galicia Seven dead and 14 missing in the sinking of a Galician ship with 24 crew members in Canadian waters

In Marin you hold your breath.

The uncertainty and the fear that the worst news will be confirmed darkens the atmosphere in an area of ​​the Galician Rías Baixas too closely linked to the world of the sea not to feel any loss as its own.

And the frigid waters off Newfoundland have already caused at least seven.

"It is a tragedy of a magnitude that we did not remember," lamented the mayor of the town,

, very affected , endorsing a pain that increases due to the lack of answers.

The names of two of the survivors,

, are known, but nothing is known about the seven deceased and 14 disappeared.

"He is a sinvivir" or "we are having a very bad time", recognized family and friends of the crew, who tried to alleviate the lack of answers with visits to the headquarters of the shipowner company, Pesquerías Nores, in the center of Marín.

Among the crew of the 'Villa de Pitanxo' there are

, but practically all of them, both those with a national ID card and those who do not reside, mostly in the area, so that the trickle of relatives eager for news was constant since halfway through Tomorrow the news broke of the shipwreck in NAFO waters 450 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland of the Galician fishing boat.

Tears of impotence could be seen and others in which it was already noted that, in the absence of official confirmation, they were already beginning to assume the worst of the outcomes.

This is the case of the family of

native of Ghana.

With three children and more than 35 years living in the area, most of them working in the fishing sector, he has deep roots in the town and many neighbors came to try to find out if he is on the sad list of victims.

His uncle, his friends, his mother, or his brother, the well-known Olympian

, showed his dismay.

"We come to know something."

Among a cloud of microphones,

and television cameras, the pastor of the church of another of the crew members,

, also arrived at the headquarters of the shipowner .

He blindly trusts that everything possible is being done in the rescue, because in the shipbuilder "they are very clear that a ship is iron and the important thing is people", but he asks for patience that few families have.

"He is compiling data so that when they have truthful information they can give it" because he insists that

. "

The mayor of Marín remembered those families who "while they wait, despair in the face of an accident of such magnitude" and the president of the Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra,

, a merchant seaman by profession, acknowledged his "absolute consternation " due to the magnitude of the tragedy and had a memory for "each and every one of the Villa de Pitanxo sailors", who embarked on January 26 and most will not return.

The lack of news becomes more difficult because in Marín they have already assumed that it will last a long time.

"For another

about the identities of the deceased, the niece of one of the disappeared,

, an experienced sailor of Peruvian origin, although a resident of Vigo, who has spent 25 years in this same company.

"At the moment they are not giving us much information, that there was a shipwreck and that they are waiting," said Elisabeth, Jonathan's aunt, another of the crew members, at the doors of the shipowner.

After hearing about the shipwreck from a friend, she went to the company's headquarters in the morning, but they could tell her nothing that could reassure the

of this 39-year-old sailor who has been at sea all his life.

They are family members who have already experienced shipwrecks, who have spent many years experiencing how their relatives come out tide after tide and always wait "with their hearts in their mouths", but nothing has prepared them to experience it so closely.

Even less prepared were the friends of one of the crew from Ghana,

who "carried only one tide on this boat" and now face silence about his health.

All diplomatic channels are activated and the operation is coordinated jointly between the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Madrid and the Canadian authorities, but nothing changes the complexity of a rescue 450 kilometers from the nearest land and in a rough sea .

The rescue tasks are complicated by the conditions of the sea, which, according to the Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "are very bad".

But, whatever the final balance, he is very clear that "it has been a disaster, the ship has disappeared and the news is not good, the news is very bad".

It is a shipwreck that not only affects the municipality of Marín, since among the crew there are neighbors from other nearby towns such as

, so that sadness and uncertainty floods all of Spain.

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