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Underwater search to being for missing plane carrying Emiliano Sala

The search for Emiliano Sala, the Argentine player whose plane got missing while he was en route to his new club Cardiff City is set to resume. On Thursday, January 24th, his family was told the search for the missing soccer star had been abandoned. This prompted calls for resumption from all over the world. Sala's sister, Romina Sala, was one of those who pleaded for the search to resume, and told the reporters she believes her brother and the pilot are still alive. "I'm very confused. All I want is that they find my brother, they find the pilot ... that they put themselves in our shoes," she said. "I feel it in me that they are alive, that they are well, they are waiting for us.
"I ask you please to not stop looking for them. Please do not stop, I thank you, I thank everyone. ... They are alive."
Funds were raised through a GoFundMe page set up on January 25 to raise €300,000 to resume the search for the missing aircraft. In less than three days, the target was reached, with more than 4,500 people donating to the cause.
The director of Bluewater Recoveries, David Mearns, spoke to the press once the target was reached. "We have sourced and hired a survey vessel equipped with state of the art search equipment, which will be used to conduct an underwater search for the wreckage in the area of the last radar contact," he said.
"The survey vessel is currently being mobilised in Southampton, and subject to weather conditions, will be re-positioned to Guernsey on Thursday or Friday this week.
"Based on current weather predictions, we are hopeful that the underwater search will begin on the weekend, most probably on Sunday."
While awaiting the commencement of the underwater search, local fishing boats have been enlisted to search the surface water for the Piper PA-46 Malibu. The aircraft originally disappeared from radar close to the Channel Islands.
Captain David Barker, Guernsey Harbour Master recently qualified chances of survival for Sala and pilot David Ibbotson as very remote, but also said Sala’s family have not given up. He said, “The family still have some hope. They're looking at this as a missing person, a missing plane, and until they are satisfied that's the mode we're in.
“This is a family that have come from Argentina with this huge shock out of nowhere and struggling with what had happened, with very, very few answers about an unexplained loss.”
The 28-year-old recently signed a club-record £15 million deal to join Cardiff from Nantes. Emiliano Sala has been missing since January 21, 2019.

Sending prayers, love and warm thoughts to the families and friends of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson, and to everyone affected by their disappearance.


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