at least one person dead and 7 more were rescued alive when a boat sank on Tuesday The Central American country is the second ship to sink in less than a week in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Sea.
The accident occurred 9 nautical miles north of Puerto Cabezas municipality in the Autonomous Region, when the Nicaraguan flagged “CAP. KARIM” sailboat carrying 8 passengers “overturned due to strong winds”. Northern Caribbean Coast, Nicaraguan Army Navy reported.
Victim ID Felipe Fajardo Renales, 60, body recovered lifeless, definite. The other 7 crew members were rescued by the Nicaraguan Land Forces Navy, which came to the rescue with motorboats.
On Wednesday last week, a Ministry of Health ship capsized in the Nicaraguan Caribbean Sea with 16 passengers on board, two people killed and 14 survivors. The day after this shipwreck, the Nicaraguan Navy suspended excursions of small, tourist and artisanal fishing vessels to the Caribbean Sea due to the advance of the 41 cold front affecting light and isolated rains, strong winds of 31 to 40 km/h. Waves of 1.7 to 3.3 meters to autonomous regions of the North and South Caribbean Coast.
Water transportation is important in Nicaragua, a country with 541 kilometers of coastline overlooking the Caribbean Sea.