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Last weekend, a fisherman miraculously survived by clinging to the bow of his half-sunken vessel off the coast of Mar del Plata, according to Argentina's coast guard.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night at about 2130 hours, the Argentine Naval Prefecture's rescue coordination center received a distress signal from the sport fishing vessel Proa al Sol II<\/em>. The boat was located about 30 nautical miles off Mar del Plata, and a coast guard cutter – the Buenos Aires<\/em> – and a helicopter were dispatched to the scene. Good Samaritan vessels were also asked to assist. <\/p>\n At about 2350 hours, the merchant bulker NKR Alice<\/em> arrived and found a half-sunken vessel with one survivor clinging to the bow. The crew radioed in their discovery, and a coast guard helicopter arrived and rescued the survivor, who was in shock and suffering from hypothermia. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Survivor Nicolás Banda, 40, told local outlet La Capital that "I felt like I was dying and I was reborn" in the cold South Atlantic water. "I thought every two minutes that I was going to die," he said. Banda recovered and has been discharged from the hospital. <\/p>\n Crewmembers Iván Rohen and Martín Parodi remain missing, and Banda reported that he had seen them sink below. The Argentine Naval Prefecture resumed a search with surface assets on Monday with the cutter Prefecto Fique<\/em>, which is conducting a sonar sweep. So far, the crews have recovered a boot, a backpack and a life jacket belonging to the Proa al Sol.<\/em><\/p>\n The cause of the sinking is under investigation. <\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend, a fisherman miraculously survived by clinging to the bow of his half-sunken vessel off the coast of Mar del Plata, according to Argentina's coast guard. On Saturday night at about 2130 hours, the Argentine Naval Prefecture's rescue coordination center received a distress signal from the sport fishing vessel Proa al Sol II. The boat …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5751,1467,9899,9529,21364,10402,5566],"class_list":["post-46128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-atlantic","tag-boat","tag-clinging","tag-fisherman","tag-halfsunken","tag-mar-del-plata","tag-survives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/46129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}