Overview

• Javier Gestido said the trawler was virtually stopped and hauling gear when the factory ship Right Whale struck, leaving no time to react.
• Video published by Faro de Vigo shows the larger vessel hitting the trawler’s starboard side, dragging it for about a minute and tearing a fatal breach.
• Gestido and coast skipper José Manuel Diz were on the bridge at impact, and survivors say the Tafra 3 went down in roughly five minutes.
• Twenty-one of the 26 aboard were rescued, while five Mauritanian crew remain missing as authorities continue search and inquiry efforts.
• Gestido reported the opposing captain is being held by Mauritanian authorities, and he recounted being forced into the water and drawing on diving experience to survive.