While the search continues by air, sea and land for two kayakers who disappeared last Sunday after entering the sea in the Buenos Aires resort of Carilountil now no trace of them has been known after more than 24 hours of an operation in which personnel and units of Argentine Naval Prefecture (PNA)Buenos Aires police, Lifeguards and the Security Secretariat of the town of Pinamar, police sources reported.
The team carrying out the search expanded the search range to the entire Coast Party. Even the Argentina Army He also reported this afternoon that he joined the aerial deployment in the search area with a Beechcrat B-200 plane to try to find both men, identified as Ramon Roman56 years old, and Gabriel Raimann37. They were last seen when they entered the sea by kayak during the early hours of Sunday in Cariló, in the area that borders the nautical descent of Valeria del Mar.
Pinamar: desperate search for two men who entered the sea by kayak and did not return
“With a B-200 aircraft the #Argentine Navy joins the search operation for the two kayakers missing in Pinamar,” the naval force reported through the social network “X.”
Staff of the Buenos Aires Police, naval Prefecture and the Municipal Security Secretariat indicated that this expansion of the search is due to the strong winds and the bad weather that hits the coast, so the operation continues with the use of drones, jet skis and a small plane.
Román, resident of Pinamar; and Raimann, a native of the province of Misiones; They entered the sea at dawn last Sunday from a beach in Cariló, aboard a red and orange kayak, with a motor, and since then there have been no traces of either of them.
Pablo Román, son of one of the disappeared, spoke with media and pointed out that he and his family are raising money to rent a helicopter and have a better view of the place.
According to him, and based on the testimony of some witnesses, Raimann and Román arrived at around 6 o’clock at the beach area in a black Toyota Hilux, a few meters from the slope located at the height of Robles Street, and entered the sea to fish. with the kayak, with the life jackets on.
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Based on these indications, a search was carried out to search by air, sea and land the coastal front from the Partido de La Costa to Villa Gesell.
The Ministry of Security of the Nation indicated in a statement that PNA “from the first moment, is collaborating in the search for missing people in Valeria del Mar, based on a notice made by the provincial Police,” and that “following the protocol , the Federal Force ordered an operation for land, sea and air“.
“The patrol, carried out by specialists from Operation Summer 2024, deploys mobile phones and personnel on the coastal strip, jet skis with rescue swimmers, coast guards and sightings via helicopter subject to hydrometeorological and visibility conditions,” indicated the national portfolio in your X account (ex Twitter).
The operation also included lifeguards, Security Police personnel; Pinamar, Villa Gesell and La Costa Communal Headquarters -each one carries out rakes and searches in the corresponding jurisdictional area-; Firefighters delegation from Costa del Este, Cariló and Pinamar; Drones from the Communications Area of the provincial police; personnel of the Departmental Delegation of Investigations in Judicial Function and the Pinamar Cavalry Squadron.
Police sources indicated that during the afternoon of this Tuesday, following the public dissemination of the case, neighbors and tourists approached those involved in the search with different elements that could belong to a boat like the one used by the two wanted men.
Although each object was received to be analyzed by PNA, more than 24 hours from the start of the operationno concrete trace was confirmed.
In that sense, prosecutor Juan Pablo Calderón, head of the Functional Instruction Unit 4 of Pinamar, was in charge of the case that began due to “finding the whereabouts.”
JD / ds