In recent hours, Colombian Navy Units launched a search and rescue operation, in order to find the people of the “Alpha One” ship, which sailed from the main dock of Buenaventura, bound for the municipality of Mosquera, carrying 25 people on board, including a minor.
The Colombian Navy acted thanks to information provided to the Timbiquí Unified Command Checkpoint, by an information of an inhabitant of the sector, who reported the event to the Traffic Control and Maritime Surveillance Station of the Port of this municipality, so immediately Coast Patrol ARC “Cárdenas” and the Fluvial Units of the infantry Battalion Nº42 were alerted to check the Chacón Beach, in the municipality of Timbiquí, sector where the event occurred.
In the operations, the Fluvial Units of the Navy Infantry Battalion Nº42, found the 25 people of the boat, who were recovered by a boat of the Risk and Disaster Management Unit of Timbiquí and local fishermen, being subsequently transported to Timbiquí, where they were given first aid.
Source: Colombian Navy
