The investigation holds the captain responsible for the sinking of the "Villa de Pitanxo."

The Permanent Commission for the Investigation of Maritime Accidents and Incidents (CIAIM) has held the owner of the "Villa de Pitanxo" responsible for the shipwreck in a report that the families of the victims see as "conclusive" and the shipowner has criticized for reaching "incorrect" conclusions. The commission points out in its report that the fishing vessel 'Villa de Pitanxo' was "overloaded" when it sank in the Atlantic, 250 miles off Newfoundland (Canada) in February 2022. It adds that the ship's captain, Juan Padín, who survived the shipwreck in which 21 people died -twelve of whom were never found-, assessed the situation in a "insufficient or inadequate" manner and that he ordered the evacuation "too late". After analyzing the causes of the incident, they attribute the main responsibility for this event to Padín's behavior, in which two other people were saved: his nephew, Eduardo Rial, and another sailor, the Ghanaian Samuel Kwesi. These are the main conclusions of the ...