Jan Van Den Berg is looking at the sea, where his father disappeared in seven decades – he lost a few days before birth. At the age of 70, it is related to the hope of finding the smallest part of the Father’s remains.
In Urk, the North fishing town of the Netherlands, the sea has long been life for families, but they have often been loved in exchange.
Some bodies never surfaced. Others were cleaned on German or Danish coasts and were not buryed at all tombs.
Tragedy, Van Den Berg – the last of six children – they became fishermen like his brothers, defending his fear of his mother that the North Sea would also claim his son.
“We never found his body,” AFP said in a low voice, was on the edge of the hat.
But after decades of uncertainty, the advances of DNA technology and artificial intelligence van den Berg has renewed his hope.
Researchers can now be more accurate than previously more accurate than the first remnants, the expected answers and the opportunity to properly mourn families.
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“Many families look at the front door, her beloved hope to walk through her,” Teun Hakvoortek, as a spokesman for placing and identifying lost fishermen in the sea.
“All sunken boats have been maped. Using modern technology, we look at miners and currents, when fishermen could be on the shore,” 60-year-old said.
The man who lacked 47 years returned to the family
Foundation, Identifitz Gezocht (seeks identity), aims to list all the unknown tombs of the North Sea, trying to identify traces.
New searches have already given fruit. The body recently tried in Schiermonnikoog, a small island in the North of the Netherlands and returned to his family.
“This man was missing for 47 years. After all this time, DNA and this new work method was discovered from Urk,” Hakvoort said.
Another Hakvoort, Frans Hakvoort, the Foundation is the foundation of the Foundation with the help of his two brothers, a close community with a close protest community.
Three men who lost a relative at sea, they lacked to dedicate free time.
“With air, we seek press articles published after a body, probably in specific circumstances,” Frans Hakvoort said, 44.
“We access all information to a database if we set a link to see. If so, we contact local authorities to see if the body exhumbs.”
The Netherlands have been wearing other countries in the North Sea to identify all those missing, about 90 percent of unknown organizations and all DNA profiles stored in a European database.
Considering fishing sites and major currents, Urk fishermen have a greater chance of burying the German or Danish coasts, he said.
The Foundation has called the public to help identify unknown tombs of Germany and Denmark.
“Denmark and Germany are of great importance at this time, because many fishermen expect a lot of legs. All the help is welcome, we want to go on vacation,” Frans Hakvoort ” Het Ukerland newspaper.
The Foundation works mainly with volunteers and have to make money and sponsors with money. Hakvoort said nos Recently a public member gave the cause of 5,000 euros.
“It remains an open wound”
Jan Van den Berg has his fingers on behalf of his father, recorded in a monument recorded by the Honorary Water beach.
It’s a long list. More than 300 names – fathers, brothers and sons, XVIII. Dates that extend until the twentieth century.
About 30 fishermen have never been found among names. KORF KEES, 1997 since 19 years old. America Martins, 47 years, 2015.
The statue of a woman, going to the back of the sea, have all these mothers and wives hoping to return to his beloved.
“My father disappeared in a storm in the frost of October 1954,” says Van Den Bergek.
“One morning the port went to the North Sea. It wasn’t believed that when I was born in Asle.”
Uncle, even on the boat, later said his father was on the stage when the wild waves flip the ship.
The tragedy still haenses the family.
“When the networks pulled fish with fish, my older brother always scared something that the human look could be,” Van den Bergek.
In 1976, Uncle boat disappeared with two cousins aged 15 to 17, even on the board.
He was among those who found the body of Jurie, four months later.
The others were never found.
“It’s not a day without thinking about them, all these men, and that’s why I take part in searches and my Dedan, because it remains open wound,” he said. “I’d like to locate at least one small bone of my father in my mother’s grave.”
