Two influencers who refused to wear life jackets dr0wned when their boat was sunk by a huge wave after a yacht party in Brazil.
Victims Aline Tamara Moreira de
Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, were found d£@d after their
overcrowded boat sank off a stretch of coast known as the Devil's Throat.
Now nearly a month after the
drownings, police say the women d!ed when their overloaded boat was swamped as it
returned to the Brazilian coast as they left the party.
Sao Vincente police
commissioner Marcos Alexandre Alfino says the influencers had refused to wear
life jackets, local media reported on 25th October.
He said: "Some didn't want
to put them on because they were taking selfies. They said that they get in the
way of their tanning."
The revelation came after the
boat's skipper, not named by police, had given extensive interviews to police
over the de@ths.
The captain, one of five survivors, said he had been ordered to take six influencers to the shore despite his boat having a maximum capacity of five passengers.
So when the craft was hit by a
huge wave on 29th September, reports local media, it was too heavy to ride it
out and began to sink. The skipper told police he had tried desperately to save
everyone.
Beatriz's body was found first drifting out to sea and was recovered by Brazil's Maritime Firefighters.
Influencers dr0wn after
refusing to wear life jackets to avoid 'ruining their selfies
Beatriz
Aline was found de@d a week
later washed up on the coast of Itaquitanduva Beach.
Aline
Police are now trying to
establish if their de@ths were simply a tragic accident or could have been
prevented.
Commissioner Alfino explained: "All this is being determined very calmly to conclude if the fatalities were based on recklessness or negligence."
Heartbreakingly mum-of-one
Aline, who could not swim, had posted her last social media images as she posed
on the boat in a daring bikini.
Aline in blue bikini
Influencers dr0wn after refusing to wear life jackets to avoid 'ruining their selfies
Aline
CrossFit trainer Beatriz had
been a model since she was a schoolgirl.
Local media named the survivors
as Vanessa Audrey da Silva, Camila Alves de Carvalho, Daniel Goncalves
Ferreira, Gabriela Santos Lima and Natan Cardoso Soares da Silva.
Vanessa later told local media
that a group of friends and influencers had met up to party on a luxury yacht
and spent the day cruising and drinking. They later split into two groups to
get back to shore but one was swamped by a wave on the return journey.
Vanessa said she had managed to
scramble into a life jacket and survived by clinging to rocks.
She said: "There was a
moment in the water when no one could see anyone. I was fighting for
life."
Another survivor Camila says
she clutched a life jacket in her hands and clung on for dear life.
She said: "There were very
strong waves, we almost died. We didn't know how to swim. I knew that I
couldn't take it for long. I hurt my foot and swallowed a lot of water. We
threw ourselves into the rocks."
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