Franco Adrian Toro disappeared in Brava Beach on Wednesday morning, after the celebrations of New Year in Punta del Este. This Thursday, the Uruguayan Prefecture left him for dead even without having found the body: “There is no hope of finding him alive”.
The young man of 30 years is a native of White Bay and was found celebrating the beginning of 2025 on the Uruguayan coast with friends. According to his social networks, it is a tattoo artist, plastic artist and animal lover.
The prefect Sebastian Sorribasleader of the search operation, held a press conference in the afternoon where he stated: “We are looking for a lifeless body”. Likewise, he highlighted that they will continue searching on land and water for another five days, in addition to expanding the search radius between 5 and 15 kilometers from where Toro was last seen.
“It is one of the most conflictive points because there is the meeting of the fresh waters of the Río de la Plata and the salt water of the Atlantic Ocean. The current is strong in both directions. For this reason, the return currents or rip currents are stronger than on other beaches. Also the presence of rocks and difficult access are other factors that make entering these waters inadvisable,” he told the outlet. Infobae.
Finally, he reassured that “staff safety comes first”, regarding the difficult weather conditions that plague the area: “The boats had a hard day today, the sea that rose hit hard, we have no breaks, but we have to evaluate everything because tomorrow they are going to go far and we have to be in optimal conditions.” operating conditions”.
Who is Franco Toro
As is known, the young Argentine had recently moved to Punta del Este to work in a gastronomic establishment during the season summery
They indicate that He developed an outstanding artistic career in his hometown where he worked as a tattoo artist. His creative versatility was manifested both in the tattoo art like in paintingwhere he mastered various techniques such as watercolor, oil and watercolor.
Given his different artistic facets, the young He had created several profiles on Instagram, both the one he used personal wayanother to promote his I work as a tattoo artistand a third intended for share your artistic works.
“Their teammates see that they couldn’t get out. Two more enter there to try to get them out.but they couldn’t either. Then a fifth enters, who had the lifeguard course made in Argentina. One of the girls manages to leave before we arrive. We took out two, a man and a woman, and this boy who was a lifeguard was able to get out alone,” he had remarked about the moment when Toro disappeared.
Source: Ambito
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