They investigate if the body found in Mallorca is that of the man who disappeared in Les Medes

They investigate if the corpse found yesterday Friday in the Port of Sóller from Mallorca belongs to the man lost in The Medes Islands last October 24. The body was recovered by the Civil Guard in front of the well-known viewpoint of Saint Catherine. It is in an advanced state of decomposition after several days at sea, as published by the newspaper Ultima Hora. According to the sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO, the corpse presents at first glance indications that relate it to the person that the emergency teams have been looking for for three weeks in Les Medes, a hypothesis that will not be officially confirmed or denied until biological tests confirm that it is is about the neighbor of l’Estartit (Torroella de Montgrí, Baix Empordà). The strong sea currents would have displaced the body almost 300 kilometers in the three weeks that have elapsed since it was lost, separating the coast from the Empordà region of Mallorca.

The resident of l’Estartit was 41 years old and the initials of his name are XG. That Sunday, after the football classic that pitted FCBarcelona against Real Madrid, he went sailing with a friend. The sea was so rough that afternoon that at that time no other ship left the port of l’Estartit. Near Les Medes, according to a friend’s statement, XG, a taxi driver by profession and known in the municipality, jumped into the water.

A rescue device was started daily for almost two weeks despite the maritime storm under which some days passed. The operation was led by the GEAS (Special Groups of Underwater Activities) of the Civil Guard based in l’Estartit with the support of their counterparts in Barcelona and the divers of the GRAE of the Bombers de la Generalitat and also those of Bombers de Barcelona. From the surface, they secured the work of the divers, boats from the Maritime Service the armed institute and the aquatic unitat of the Mossos d’Esquadra. Despite the fact that a robot with cameras remotely controlled from the surface was added to the task in the second week of the search, it was not possible to find it. The unmanned submarine was a ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Pro 4 IP65 BASE model provided altruistically by the company Hydrosphere of Palamós.

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Between October 25 and November 5, GEAS conducted more than 80 dives that, in sum, kept divers underwater for 4,800 minutes consuming 240,000 liters of air. The area tracked in those days reached 130 hectares between the coast and Les Medes, a quadrangular perimeter that has been measured with the GPS of the boat that was pulling the divers.

As of November 5, after two days of consecutive dives, it had been decided to do more specific searches. “Not by stopping looking for it & rdquor ;, underline device sources. This measure was chosen because it was suspected that the strong currents could have displaced the corpse very far, as it seems that this has happened.