near Girona. The 24 crew members aboard the Ramón Margalef were preparing Friday to use its sensors and submergible robot to map an offshore area of about 14 square miles — the equivalent of more than 5,000 soccer fields — to see if they can locate ...

Spanish navy diver Alvaro Carrillo donned his wetsuit and prepared a speedboat to scour a normally picturesque lagoon made murky by a sea of debris -- and potentially bodies.

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to take on a new job: Helping in the increasingly desperate search for the missing from Spain's floods.

Spanish authorities redeployed a marine research vessel to join the search for missing flood victims along the Mediterranean coast Tuesday. The Ramón Margalef — a nearly 151-foot long vessel “equipped with cutting-edge technology,