Family and friends said goodbye this Thursday to Hensley Boza, a 19-year-old boy who disappeared last Monday when he was practicing underwater fishing on the north coast of Matanzas. The authorities found his body on Tuesday morning, although the information did not come out until the publication of a Civil Defense note in the official press.
“Today we physically say goodbye to you, but we will always carry you in our lives. Since I lost you, I have no peace, nor has your family, who has bitterly hurt your departure,” his girlfriend wrote in a long farewell message posted on Facebook.
The young woman, named Katy, was with Hensley when she disappeared and, according to the authorities, was the one who alerted when she did not return from her third dive. “We went into the water together and I came out alone,” the girl reviews in her post, who tries to find comfort by remembering that her partner lost her life doing what she liked the most.
“I know that if they took away your fishing they took away your reason for being and in the end that same fishing and the sea were your end”
“I know that if they took away your fishing they took away your reason for being and in the end that same fishing and the sea were your end,” he adds.
Hensley, who lived in the city of Matanzas, made his last dive around one in the afternoon on Monday and, after his disappearance, five divers from the fire department searched for the young man until nightfall, when work had to be suspended. rescue due to bad weather. On Tuesday the body was located “400 meters from the north coast and 37 meters deep,” reported Yumuri TV.
Katy, however, asked on Wednesday the 31st for help from anyone who could still give news of the young man, which suggests that the authorities were slow to inform the relatives of the death. Despite this, they have stated that the rescue was joint between the Red Cross, Civil Defense and family and friends.
“The cause was a blackout. With this he loses oxygen, which does not reach his brain, and then he goes to the bottom of the sea and drowns,” says the official note, which adds that it is the third drowning in Matanzas this year during fishing and diving activities.
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