An attorney has filed a lawsuit for negligence on behalf of Adrian Vasquez, the lone survivor of a three-person fishing boat that spent nearly one month lost at sea after trying to find his way back to the port of Rio Hato, BBC reports. Vasquez was adrift for 28 days, surviving of rain water and fre
Adrian Vasquez, 18, saw a huge white ship coming toward them. He waved a red sweater to get their attention, reaching high over his head, and dropping it low to his knees. Though he was near death, the skipper of the little panga, Elvis Oropeza Betancourt, 31, joined in, waving an orange life jacket
Date: Apr 20, 2012
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Cruise company investigates claim that ship ignored stricken fishing boat
, Oropeces Betancourt, 24, died of dehydration. The youngest fisherman, Fernando Osorio, 16, died on 15 March suffering from dehydration, sunburn and heat stroke. Another nine days elapsed before Adrian Vasquez, 18, was finally saved from his ordeal, having had to push his friends' bodies overboard.
Date: Apr 20, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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Carnival Investigating Claim that Princess Captain Ignored Pleas for Help
The third fisherman, Adrian Vasquez, 18, pushed his friends bodies overboard. He was rescued nine days later when another fishing boat spotted the Fifty Cents near the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles from its home port.
RIO HATO, Panama (AP) A Panamanian man and his two friends had been drifting for 16 days in an open fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean when they saw a huge white ship. They would be saved, they thought, and Adrian Vasquez began waving a dark red sweater.