Week-Long Search Continues After Manaus River Sinking With Five Still Missing

Overview

• Daily operations mobilize roughly 70 to 80 personnel conducting surface sweeps and dives with image sonars and metal detectors across an expanded search area.
• Authorities report 71 people rescued, three confirmed dead and five still unaccounted for a week after the Lima de Abreu XV went down.
• The Brazilian Navy has deployed a helicopter from the 1st General Employment Helicopter Squadron, a riverine vessel from the 1st Riverine Operations Battalion and patrol boats from the Western Amazon Riverine Captaincy.
• Differing water speeds and densities where the Solimões meets the Negro, plus drifting logs and debris, are hampering diving and increasing risk to teams.
• With no passenger list recovered, teams rely on family reports for accounting, police seek pilot Pedro José da Silva Gama after a preventive-detention order, and officials urge the public not to conduct their own searches.