| Rescue workers combing the Potaro River for the missing passengers of a boat that went over the Tumatumari Waterfall on Friday, have recovered the body of 20-year-old Levi Isaacs,Jerseys NFL Cheap, the Region’s Regional Executive Officer (REO), Ronald Harsawack has confirmed.As of last evening,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, there was still no sign of seven-year-old Jaeden Pereira of Micobie, Region Eight.Reports indicate that about 23:30 hours on Friday night a boat with seven persons encountered mechanical problems while navigating the area in the vicinity of the hydro plant on the Potaro River.The vessel reportedly drifted backwards and headed over the Tumatumari waterfalls, which is averaged to be about 35 – 40 feet in height. The body of 23-year-old Captain, Mark Williams, called ‘Dennis’ was the first to be recovered on Saturday.Levi, of Monkey Mountain,Cheap NFL Jerseys Online, and Pereira were listed as missing while Pereira’s mother Sylvia Pio; her two brothers Crawford Pio and Clemson Andrew all of Micobie; and Carl Joseph of Lethem were injured. The four were treated at the Micobie Health Center.Speaking to Kaieteur News yesterday, Harsawack said the village is still struggling to come to grips with the accident.The REO reported that the team, comprising of eight boat loads of villagers, went on the search mission yesterday combing the river from the area just below the waterfall to the mouth of the Potaro River.He said the plan is to now extend the search area towards the mouth of the Essequibo River.Meanwhile, one of the survivors, Sylvia said she is a cook employed at Falls Top but her son stayed with her sister in Tumatumari because it made it easier for him to attend school.Sylvia told this publication that prior to the accident, she collected her son and was taking him to spend some time with her at Falls Top. She said she was discussing her plans to travel when the Captain overheard and offered her a lift.She said that Williams and her brothers were in a shop at Tumatumari where they had several rounds of alcohol along with Joseph.Sylvia said they eventually made it to the waterway and went into the boat. “This boat tek long to start. They keep trying to start it and it won’t start. After a long time then it start up and we gone.”The woman went on to say that the drive is usually 10 minutes from Tumatumari to Falls Top. She explained that when they were “halfway there,” the vessel’s engine cut off then the Captain started it again.The cook told this publication that she and the occupants at first believed Williams was pulling a prank on them because at the time he was “kind of high.”“The boat did giving we problems. When Mark start it back, he started going backwards and we end up over the falls,Jerseys NFL Cheap,” the woman recalled. She explained that when the boat went over the waterfalls,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, everyone scattered.“It’s not a lil fall, it big. I hold onto him (Jaeden Pereira) so tight but when we go over the fall I couldn’t hold him no more. It’s a big big fall, I don’t know how I survive. I don’t know how I live through the rapid,” a teary Sylvia recounted.She claimed that she felt like she was drowning and had ingested a copious amount of water. She told this publication that throughout the ordeal,Wholesale Jerseys, she kept praying for her and her 7-year-old.The mother said the river drifted her away and eventually she landed on a river bank before being saved by the rescue team. Her brothers also survived the accident. They are currently nursing wounds they sustained. |
