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The

at 5:24 a.m. on Tuesday, February 15, after suffering a "sudden stoppage of the main engine" during the rigging maneuver.

This was confirmed this Monday by the shipowner company of the sunken ship 250 miles from Newfoundland (Canada) with 24 crew members on board, of whom only three were rescued alive.

One of the survivors, the ship's skipper,

, provided this information to the shipowner once he was rescued and transferred to Canada.

This Monday he is expected to return to Spain aboard a plane chartered by the Government, but before that he spoke with the shipowner and transferred all the information he had about what happened.

As he explained, that sudden stop of the main engine "left the ship without propulsion or steering" and "exposed to the wind and waves", which at dawn were several meters in Newfoundland.

The ship suffered shocks from the sea that "listed and sank it" and, according to the skipper, everything happened "very quickly".

The shipping company held a first meeting on Monday with the families of the nine deceased crew members and the 12 missing at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra and sent all the details of the ship's sinking to those affected.

The search for the missing

After the meeting, the shipowner joined the main request of the families in recent days, to resume the search for the disappeared that Canada suspended on Wednesday afternoon, after only 36 hours of tracking.

Already the families, the mayors, affected neighbors and the Galician president himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, made this request in recent days and now also the shipowner.

The national government is in contact with Canada and Pedro Sánchez obtained a commitment from the country's authorities that they will resume the search tasks as soon as weather conditions allow.

But this promise is not enough for the families, who believe that the Government should get more involved, send its own rescue means and offer economic aid to the Spanish fishing vessels that are in the area so that they stop fishing and participate in the search operation.

The shipbuilder also showed its "support and total willingness" to promote, as has already been done, "that the tracking tasks be resumed as soon as possible."

The families also met this Monday, for the second time, with the deputy delegate of the Government in Pontevedra,

, to insist on the need to resume the search.

"Today is a day of mourning at the national level, we want to pay tribute to the families who, like my father, are at the bottom of the sea, but the tribute to the Spanish flag and to the families is to look for them", he asked on behalf of the affected

, daughter of

, one of the crew members who is still missing.

"Please"

This Monday is the day of official mourning as a sign of condolence for the sinking of the

and they want them to be very present.

They urgently need to resume the search in anticipation that a storm is expected in that area this Wednesday.

This Monday, other fishing boats told them "that they are fishing normally" and that "the weather there at this moment is normal to start the search."

"Please, that the president resume the search, that he call the Canadian Maritime Rescue and that supposed commitment to resume, that he make it effective," asked María José de Pazo.

In addition, they request that the necessary means be sent from Salvamento Marítimo, including drones and underwater robots, to locate the sailors who have been left inside the ship.

Late this Monday, the arrival in Santiago de Compostela of the Air Force A-400 plane sent by the Government to Canada to repatriate the three survivors and five of those who died in the shipwreck to Spain is expected.

The bodies of the other four deceased will be repatriated directly to Peru, their country of origin.

The rescued crew

The aircraft was scheduled to land around six in the afternoon, but bureaucratic procedures delayed it.

Surviving the shipwreck were the ship's skipper, Juan Padín;

his nephew,

;

and sailor Samuel Kwesi.

Twelve bodies are still missing and nine bodies were rescued, five Spanish sailors, three Peruvians and one Ghanaian.

They are

(cook),

(sailor),

(sailor),

(marmitón),

(first mate),

(sailor),

(sailor),

(oiler) and

(sailor).

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