Three Marine Pilots were lost on the 21st August during a storm off the Uruguayan coast when their Launch sank.

The Launch “Ederra III” was 750m off Punta Brara when it started to take water by the stern. Four Pilots and two crewmen were recovered from the River Plate by a Navy Patrol Boat.  

Two of the dead Pilots were found 18 km away from the sinking the following day and a third died in hospital from severe hypothermia. 

The wreck is to be raised to establish the cause of the accident.

The President of IMPA (International Maritime Pilots Association),Executive, Secretary General and Associations from all around the world have expressed their condolences to their colleagues in Uruguay.

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The Uruguayan Navy found in the morning of Monday the bodies  of two maritime pilots in a beach 18 km to the east of Montevideo, after a laborious search soon of the shipwreck of a boat at night of Sunday, informed to the AFP the spokesman into the Navy, Alexander Añón.

"They appeared bodies both, does about 15 or 20 minutes, in the beach of Shangrilá, one in the beach and another one in the rompiente, to few meters of the coast", Añón said.

 The Navy, with the help of the Air Force, looked for these two people, who were missing from the night of Sunday, after sinking the boat "Ederra III" in the River of the Silver, in the middle of strong winds and very low temperatures.

The "Ederra III", that took to two crew and four pilots, went to resentment around 20H30 local of Sunday 23H00 GMT to about 750 meters of the Light of End Carts, the south of Montevideo, when it fulfilled tasks in the transport of practitioners who advise to the boats that are about to to enter the Port of Montevideo.
"Now judge Fanny Canessa will continue with the investigation of the shipwreck and the technical skills will become of the boat", said Añón

 "What we know it is that apparently the boat came draining water and apparently boma of bailing was broken", explained the spokesman.

The alert took place when sending the crew a beacon that in contact with the water drives a satelite alarm, according to a system orchestrated by the Air Force, that activated the operative one of rescue immediately.

 Several boats supported by a helicopter of the Air Force were sent to the search of terrible meteorological conditions within the framework, at moments at which the Uruguayan coast was whipped by strong winds and very low temperatures.

Three hours after sudden flight the alarm, was managed to locate the boat that not yet had been finished sinking with four of the six obstinate sailors to the same one, one of which it is in delicate state due to the suffered hypotherm, Añón said.

 The search, that in the morning of this Monday continued with three boats - two of the Naval National Prefecture, and one of practitioners -, an airship of the Navy and a helicopter of the Air Force, culminated both after the finding of the bodies of disappear, around 09H15 local.

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