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Laura Tobón and 13 other people, most of her family, were shipwrecked on Saturday when going out for a walk from Tasajera to the palafittic villages to know the sector. However, the boat they hired ran out of fuel.
To top it off, there were no flares on the boat to warn of its location, it did not have reserve gasoline, and it did not have a means of communication to warn of its situation.
“We were shipwrecked for around four or five hours with my whole family, they were moments of great fear, of great uncertainty, because we did not know where we were,” said the presenter after the rescue.
It was the fishermen who saw them approach the ones who alerted the authorities when they saw that they did not return.
A light, at almost ten o’clock on Saturday night, was the hope for the tourists who saw a similar boat approaching in the distance.
They began to shout and shine their phones, which had no signal, for rescue to arrive immediately.
“Thanks to the community, thanks to the Navy, we managed to get out of where we were,” said Laura Tobón, who added that they were “very far from the dock, I’m still shaking.”
The maritime authorities try to establish how the journey was and why there was no permission or some kind of communication from the captain of the boat.
In addition, this type of vessel is not allowed to make these tours, not only because of the pandemic, but because the department of Magdalena has not authorized them.
They also investigate how a captain leaves without GPS, flares or extra fuel.
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