2 influencers drown after insisting life jackets would ‘get in the way of their tanning’ during boat party: police

Two influencers are dormant aft refusing to deterioration lifejackets connected a speedboat that sank disconnected nan Brazilian seashore – because they didn’t want nan information cogwheel to ruin their tan successful photos, according to police.

Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, ignored pleas to deterioration their life preservers erstwhile an overcrowded vessel taking them backmost to statement from a yacht statement capsized successful nan unsmooth waters of Devil’s Throat on the Iguazu River, according to section reports.

“Some didn’t want to put them connected because they were taking selfies,” Sao Vincente Police Commissioner Marcos Alexandra Alfino said, based connected grounds by nan boat’s captain.

“They said that they get successful nan measurement of their tanning.”

The 2 victims boarded a speedboat to statement pinch 4 different influencers aft partying connected a luxury yacht pinch friends disconnected nan seashore of Sao Paulo connected Sept. 29, according to section media.

The speedboat skipper told constabulary he was ordered to carrier nan six influencers, contempt only having a maximum capacity of 5 passengers, leaving nan dense alloy incapable to navigate viscous waves that inundated nan vessel and threw nan passengers into nan choppy waters, constabulary said.

The skipper told constabulary he tried desperately to prevention his passengers, but nan 2 victims refused to deterioration their life vests connected nan boat, believing it would effect their photos and tans, according to section reports.

Faria’s assemblage was recovered by Brazil’s Maritime Firefighters aft it drifted retired to sea, constabulary said.

Amorium, whose assemblage was recovered washed up connected nan seashore of Itaquitanduva Beach a week later, had posted photos to her societal media showing her aboard nan luxury yacht, moments earlier she drowned.

“All this is being wished very calmly to reason if nan fatalities were based connected recklessness aliases negligence,” Alfino explained, according to section outlets.

Vanessa Audrey da Silva, 1 of nan 5 survivors, told nan outlets that she put her life vest connected successful a frenzy and clutched to a stone aft nan vessel descended into nan waters.

“There was a infinitesimal successful nan h2o erstwhile nary 1 could spot anyone,” she said.

“I was fighting for my life.”