THE search continues for two men who went missing two-and-a-half months ago after setting sail from Torrox.
The families of Joaquín Espinosa Ruiz, a 24-yearold from Cadiz, and Antonio Jesus Moyano Pérez, aged 30 from Velez Malaga, have made a public appeal to find the two men.
The pair set off from El Peñoncillo in Torrox Costa on June 27. According to the mother of the younger man, he had contacted Moyano in order to buy a boat from him, which was berthed in the dry-dock at Torrox.
Joaquín’s mother, Maribel Ruiz, said: “He had just got his sailing permit, and told me that he wanted to buy a boat.
“He had looked at a lot on the internet and this was the first time he had gone out to view one with the owner.”
In the immediate aftermath of the men’s disappearance, the coastguard used helicopters to carry out a thorough search of the coastline from Tarifa to Almeria. However, their efforts proved fruitless.
Maribel continued: “It is as if the boat has been abducted by aliens, because it had a radio beacon which is meant to be infallible.
“I am desperate. I have searched all over Morocco but there is no trace of him or his companion.”
The 24-year-old is in the military, and based in Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast.
The wife of the other missing man, Antonio Jesus Moyano Pérez, added that her husband had left his mobile phone in Joaquín’s car at the dock, and that they had not heard from him since.
She said: “He has never been away for more than a day. We have three small children between the ages of four and eight.
“He was selling the boat because we need the money.”
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