Spanish research ship enlisted for grim task of finding cars & bodies swept out to sea in floods using robot sub & sonar

A SPANISH probe vessel has been enlisted for the grim task of searching for cars and bodies swept retired to oversea successful the catastrophic floods that rocked Spain.

The vas volition beryllium utilizing robot submarine and sonar to scan and representation the seabed successful the progressively hopeless hunt for those who were swept away.

The anticipation is that a representation of sunken vehicles could pb to the betterment of bodies, aft cars became decease traps erstwhile the tsunami-like flooding deed connected October 29.

The 24 unit members aboard the Ramón Margalef are preparing to usage its sensors and submersible robot to representation an offshore country of 10 quadrate miles, the equivalent of much than 5,000 shot fields, the hunt for missing people.

The boat’s submersible robot loaded with cameras tin dive to a extent of 60 meters to effort to place cars.

Nearly 100 radical person been officially declared missing, and authorities admit that is apt much radical are unaccounted for, successful summation to much than the 200 declared dead.

Pablo Carrera, the marine biologist starring the mission, said his squad would beryllium capable to manus implicit utile accusation to police and exigency services successful 10 days.

Without a map, helium said, it would beryllium practically intolerable for constabulary to transportation retired an effectual and systematic betterment cognition to scope vehicles that ended up connected the seabed.

He said: “It would beryllium similar uncovering a needle successful a haystack."

The archetypal country the Ramón Margalef is searching is the agelong of oversea disconnected the Albufera wetlands, wherever astatine slightest immoderate of the h2o ended up after ripping done villages and the confederate outskirts of Valencia city.

Emergency searchers person besides utilized poles to probe into layers of mud portion sniffer dogs tried to find scent traces of bodies buried successful canal banks and fields.

The horrifically precocious decease toll has sparked outrage among residents, with immoderate accusing Spanish authorities of not informing radical astir the dangers posed by the upwind soon enough.

500 soldiers joined successful the hunt for missing radical and different 500 were deployed successful the worst affected portion - Valencia.

Around 1,200 troops person already been helping with rescuing residents and conducting clean-up operations.

Psychologists person adjacent been placed successful the country to be to residents and soldiers astatine the devastating scene.

Crews were searching for bodies successful stranded cars and sodden buildings connected Thursday arsenic residents salvaged what they could from their ruined homes.

It comes aft Spain was deed by caller floods with melodramatic footage showing mounds of destroyed cars piled precocious successful an overflowing river.

The images are eerily akin to those retired of Valencia where much than 200 radical died after torrential rains and storms struck the still-grieving nation.

Agonising scenes saw roads turned into rivers and torrents of debris-filled mud sweeping away cars, people, animals and buildings.

On Friday greeting different raging flood swept done the centre of Cadaques, a municipality successful Girona, successful the northeastern portion of Catalan.

Residents woke up to the caller demolition with section politician Pia Serinyana confirming implicit 30 cars had been washed distant by flooding.

A adjacent stream had burst its banks, conscionable arsenic galore had immoderate 10 days agone successful and astir Valencia.

Cadaques is conscionable implicit 300 miles northbound of Valencia, wherever much than 200 radical including 2 Brits lost their lives successful flash floods precocious past period and 78 radical are inactive missing.

It marked Spain's worst earthy catastrophe successful representation prompting the King and Queen to sojourn devastated areas themselves in an effort to boost morale and speech to survivors.