Body of Missing Jet-Skier Identified After Ilhabela Search

Overview

• Search teams found a body floating near Ilha de Búzios and officials confirmed late Monday that it is 28-year-old Dheorge Pereira Bernardino.
• The medical-legal exam listed drowning as the cause of death and the identification used family recognition together with IML and identification‑institute checks.
• A woman who was with Dheorge, Bruna Damaris Sant’anna da Silva, was rescued by fishermen after about 42 hours adrift and received hospital care days earlier.
• Rescue operations involved the GBMar, the Marinha and Defesa Civil using parallel-line sweeps and were supplemented by volunteer boat and jet-ski owners organized by the Alcatrazes Jet Club; the pair’s jet ski was found adrift about 22 kilometres from their last sighting.
• Authorities registered the case as a ‘‘morte suspeita’’ and the Polícia Civil and the Marinha are interviewing witnesses and gathering forensic evidence as the body is returned to the family.