Portal de Aguilas
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After fourteen days sunk in the fishing port of Aguilas, the sailboat Penelope is already on land.
Yesterday, after an intense operation in which the divers and technicians of Salvamento Marítimo and the engineers of Ports of the Ministry of Development, as well as members of Red Cross and Civil Protection were able to deposit the sailboat of 38 meters of length on a layer Of geotextile and gravel, located in the esplanade of the wharf, in which it will remain about forty days, estimated time for the work of scrapping.
The mayor of Aguilas, Mari Carmen Moreno, who has visited the place daily during the fourteen days that lasted the operation, emphasized yesterday "the great work done by all those who have made possible the reflote of Penelope, especially divers and technicians of Maritime Rescue".
In this sense, the first aquiline councilman referred to the difficulty "to launch a boat of these dimensions without counting the planes of the ship or to know the distribution of masses of the ship."
Minutes before the sailboat landed, the Minister of Fomento and Infraestructuras, Pedro Rivera, and Salvador García-Ayllón, General Director of Transport, Ports and Coasts, also arrived at the port of the town.
This visit was used by the first aquiline building to transfer to the representatives of the regional government their concern for the Jazmine;
Another abandoned boat in the port of Aguilas that requires continuous bilge work to stay afloat.
The head of the aquiline executive urged the councilor to act urgently in order to "prevent a recurrence of the situation of Penelope." In addition, added Moreno, a fact that if produced could have environmental consequences since we do not know if the yacht is totally decontaminated and whose reflote As the case may be, as they assure us from a much more complex Maritime Rescue. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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