A woman decided that it would be a good idea to go for a swim off a beach in Valencia despite a Orange-Level, meterological warning being issued: destructive low-pressure system.
This destructive low-pressure system is known as a DANA in Spanish and like storms, have names; in this case, Adam. For most British people it would be a cloud-burst heavy down pour, although in Europe it is also known as a ‘cold drop,’
She had gone to a Playa de Almardà in the town of Sagunto last Sunday accompanied by a male friend some time before eight in the evening; i.e. at dusk, which was the time that 112 received a call to say there had been a woman in the water who had simply disappeared.
According to eyewitnesses, the couple had stripped off to go skinny dipping in the sea. When the witnesses saw the man return to the beach exhausted but with no sign of the woman, they phoned the emergency coordination centre.
So who were the couple? The male was a 55-year-old New Zealander who had rented a house next to the said beach for the weekend and had arranged to meet up with the woman – they are not a couple in the sense of a partners or ‘significant other.’
Both reportedly were under the influence of alcohol or a drug, according to the person who phoned 112.
The emergency services reacted immediately by contacting the Salvamento Marítimo in Valencia and the fire service, who began a coordinated search pattern using the air-sea rescue helicopters and a fire-department RIB and other assets
Shortly after the search began her body was found on a nearby beach, Playa de Canet d’en Berenguer, carried there by the strong wave action. The body was immediately identified as the missing woman.
The body was taken to the Instituto de Medicina Legal de Valencia for an autopsy and the Guardia Civil have opened an investigation into the incident.
(News: Sagunto, Valencia)
Keywords: Cold Drop, Storm, Swimming, Drowned, New Zealander, Salvamento Marítimo
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