A pair of influencers are dead after insisting life jackets would “get in the way of their tanning” while on a boat in Brazil.
Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, were on an overcrowded speedboat off the coast of Sao Paulo.
But despite pleas from the captain to wear personal flotation devices, the women refused to put them on because the safety vests would ruin their tans in photos, police said.
The boat was taking the women and others back to shore from a yacht party, according to local reports, as reported by the New York Post.
The two victims were with four other influencers off the coast of Sao Paulo on Sept. 29 when the accident occurred, local media said.
The captain was instructed to transport all six influencers, despite having a maximum capacity for only five passengers.
That left the boat unable to navigate the treacherous waves and eventually tossed the passengers into the rough waters of Devil’s Throat along the Iguazu River.
“Some didn’t want to put them on because they were taking selfies,” Sao Vincente Police Commissioner Marcos Alexandra Alfino said, citing testimony by the boat’s captain.
“They said that they get in the way of their tanning.”
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The captain told police he tried to get the passengers to safety, but the victims not wearing life vests could not be saved.
Faria’s body had drifted out to sea and was recovered by Brazil’s Maritime Firefighters, police said.
Amorium’s body washed up on the coast of Itaquitanduva Beach nearly a week after the tragic mishap, on Oct. 4, CNN Brasil reported.
She had posted photos to her social media showing her aboard the luxury yacht, moments before she drowned.
The investigation into the women’s deaths, whether they were based on recklessness or negligence, is ongoing, local outlets reported.
Vanessa Audrey da Silva, one of the five survivors, told the outlets that she put her life vest on in a frenzy and clutched to a rock after the boat was upended.
“There was a moment in the water when no one could see anyone,” she said.
“I was fighting for my life.”