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Three Spaniards and one Serbian were found to be in good physical condition and in no need of medical assistance, and were rescued by the ship Zaire.
The Maritime Authority carried out operations on Friday afternoon near the Madalena pools. The alert was raised at 15:10 by a relative. The causes of the disappearance are unknown.
During a training voyage in 1941, the cadets of the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque helped save lives after a ship was sunk by German submarines off South Africa and witnessed the horror of the Japanese invasion of Timor.
According to the Portuguese Navy, the Lisbon Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre coordinated 318 search and rescue operations, in which 433 people were rescued.
