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Two influencers drowned at yacht party after 'refusing to wear life jacket' as it would 'ruin tans and selfies'

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Updated 16:03 30 Oct 2024 GMTPublished 15:28 30 Oct 2024 GMT

Two influencers drowned at yacht party after 'refusing to wear life jacket' as it would 'ruin tans and selfies'

Survivors say they clung onto life jackets in their hands

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Two influencers drowned at a yacht party after they ‘refused to wear life jackets’ as it would ‘ruin their tans and selfies’.

Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, were found dead after the overcrowded boat sank off a stretch of the Brazilian coast known as the ‘Devil’s Throat’.

The captain told police he had been ordered to take six influencers back to the shore on 29 September even though his boat only had a maximum capacity of five passengers.

His craft was then hit by a huge wave, according to local media, and it was too heavy to ride it out and began to sink. He told police he desperately tried to save everyone.

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Aline. (Newsflash)
Aline. (Newsflash)

Police say the pair hadn’t been wearing life jackets at the time, despite one of them not being able to swim.

Local media added that Sao Vincente police commissioner Marcos Alexandre Alfino said of the influencers: "Some didn’t want to put them on because they were taking selfies. They said that they get in the way of their tanning."

Beatriz’s body was found first and recovered by Brazil’s Maritime Firefighters while it was drifting out to sea. Aline wasn’t found until a week later, when her dead body washed up on the coast of Itaquitanduva Beach.

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It is now being established if the pair’s deaths were just a tragic accident or if they could have been prevented.

Commissioner Alfino explained: "All this is being determined very calmly to conclude if the fatalities were based on recklessness or negligence."

Mum-of-one Aline, who couldn’t swim, had posted her final snaps on social media as she posed on the boat in her bikini.

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Survivors were named by local media as Vanessa Audrey da Silva, Camila Alves de Carvalho, Daniel Goncalves Ferreira, Gabriela Santos Lima, and Natan Cardoso Soares da Silva.

Beatriz. (Newsflash)
Beatriz. (Newsflash)

Vanessa later explained that a group of friends and influencers had met up for a luxury yacht party, spending their day cruising and drinking.

When they returned to shore, they split into two groups – with one being the victim of the swamped boat.

She said she had managed to get into a life jacket and then survived the ordeal by clinging onto rocks.

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"There was a moment in the water when no one could see anyone. I was fighting for life,” Vanessa recalled.

Another survivor, Camila, explained she clutched a life jacket in her hands and held on for dear life.

She said: "There were very strong waves, we almost died. We didn’t know how to swim.

I knew that I couldn’t take it for long. I hurt my foot and swallowed a lot of water.

"We threw ourselves into the rocks."

Featured Image Credit: Newsflash

Topics: News, Social Media, World News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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