Deus colocou a gente para salvar essa vida
Ao largo de Ilhabela, no litoral paulista, o mar devolveu uma sobrevivente e guardou um desaparecido. Bruna Damaris Sant'Anna da Silva, de 26 anos, foi resgatada por pescadores após mais de quarenta horas à deriva no Atlântico, dezesseis quilômetros da costa — um intervalo de tempo que, para seu companheiro Dheoge, ainda não encontrou desfecho. O acidente com um jet ski, ocorrido num domingo de festa, transformou-se em investigação criminal e em luto suspenso, lembrando que o mar não distingue entre o descuido e o azar.
- Uma falha mecânica no jet ski lançou dois jovens ao oceano aberto sem que ninguém soubesse onde estavam — eles haviam saído da festa sem avisar ninguém.
- Por mais de quarenta horas, Bruna lutou contra correntes fortes e água gelada, enquanto buscas oficiais da Marinha e do Corpo de Bombeiros varriam o mar sem encontrá-la.
- Dheoge desapareceu durante a noite; Bruna relatou que estiveram juntos até certa hora, mas não testemunhou o momento em que ele sumiu — um vazio que alimenta rumores e investigações.
- Dois pescadores, pai e filho, desviaram sua rota habitual e encontraram Bruna ainda consciente, de colete salva-vidas, com as mãos embranquecidas pelo frio — e a retiraram do mar a tempo.
- A Marinha abriu inquérito administrativo e a Polícia Civil investiga habilitação do operador e documentação do equipamento, enquanto o corpo de Dheoge ainda não foi localizado.
Na tarde de um domingo, Bruna Damaris Sant'Anna da Silva e um colega chamado Dheoge saíram discretamente de uma festa em um barco fretado para dar uma volta de jet ski perto de Ilhabela. Partiram por volta das três da tarde sem avisar ninguém. Quando o barco retornou à marina horas depois, a ausência dos dois tornou-se alarmante. Amigos acionaram os serviços de resgate e saíram em busca própria; na segunda-feira, a Marinha e o Corpo de Bombeiros assumiram as operações no mar aberto.
O que exatamente aconteceu com o jet ski ainda é objeto de investigação, mas as autoridades apontam para falha mecânica. A embarcação foi recuperada na segunda-feira e encaminhada para perícia. A Marinha abriu inquérito administrativo para apurar as causas do acidente, a habilitação do operador e a regularidade do equipamento. A Polícia Civil de São Paulo acompanha o caso pela mesma linha: a máquina teria simplesmente falhado.
Em seu próprio relato, publicado no Instagram após o resgate, Bruna descreveu que ela e Dheoge permaneceram juntos durante a noite e parte da terça-feira. A água invadiu o jet ski quase imediatamente, impossibilitando que ficassem a bordo. A correnteza era forte e os arrastava para o largo. Ela não viu Dheoge tirar o colete salva-vidas e não presenciou seu desaparecimento. Pediu que rumores circulando nas redes fossem ignorados, afirmando já ter repassado tudo o que sabia às autoridades.
Foi um pescador chamado Alex dos Santos e seu filho quem a encontrou, na manhã de terça-feira, enquanto trabalhavam próximo à Ilha de Búzios. Ao decidir explorar um trecho mais remoto do oceano, avistaram Bruna sozinha na água, a dezesseis quilômetros da costa, ainda de colete, com as mãos brancas de frio. Tiraram-na do mar, enrolaram-na em um cobertor e chamaram o Corpo de Bombeiros pelo rádio. Santos atribuiu o encontro à intervenção divina — uma intuição de avançar exatamente até aquele ponto, naquele momento.
Dheoge continua desaparecido. A busca prossegue, mas o tempo pesa contra qualquer esperança. A sobrevivência de Bruna é o único desfecho concreto de uma história que, em seus aspectos mais dolorosos, permanece em aberto.
Bruna Damaris Sant'Anna da Silva spent more than forty hours alone in the Atlantic Ocean before a pair of fishermen spotted her floating near Búzios Island, sixteen kilometers off the coast of Ilhabela. The twenty-six-year-old nursing assistant had been missing since Sunday afternoon, when she and a colleague named Dheoge left a party aboard a chartered boat to take a jet ski out for a ride. They never returned.
The two had slipped away from the gathering around three o'clock without telling anyone where they were headed. By late afternoon, when the boat returned to the marina, their absence became impossible to ignore. Friends immediately alerted rescue services and launched their own search from a private vessel, working the waters near the last known location. The official search began in earnest on Monday, with the Brazilian Navy and fire department coordinating efforts across the open sea.
What happened to the jet ski remains unclear, though investigators believe mechanical failure is the most likely explanation. The craft was recovered on Monday and sent for forensic examination. The Navy opened a formal administrative inquiry into the accident, examining not only what caused the malfunction but also whether the operator held proper licensing and whether the equipment's documentation was in order. The Civil Police of São Paulo, working through the local Ilhabela delegation, is pursuing the same line of reasoning—that the machine simply gave out, rather than that negligence or error played a role.
Bruna's own account, posted on Instagram after her rescue, offers the clearest picture of those final hours before she was found. She and Dheoge stayed together through the night and into Tuesday morning, she wrote. Water had begun flooding into the jet ski almost immediately, making it impossible to remain aboard. The current was strong and relentless, pulling them both toward open water. She did not see Dheoge remove his life jacket, and she did not witness him going under. She emphasized that she had already given police and journalists all the information she could provide, and that rumors circulating online were false.
A fisherman named Alex dos Santos and his son were working the waters near Búzios Island on Tuesday morning, hunting for shrimp in the deeper channels, when they decided to venture into a more remote stretch of sea. What they found there was Bruna, alone in the water, her body weakened by more than a day and a half of exposure. She was still wearing her life jacket. Her hands had turned white from the cold and the strain. Santos later described the moment in a video that spread across social media: he turned the boat around, spotted her in the distance with nothing around her, no vessel, no other sign of help. They pulled her aboard, wrapped her in a blanket, and immediately radioed the fire department.
Santos credited the life jacket with keeping her alive through the night. He and his son had been guided to that exact spot by what he described as divine intervention—a feeling that they should move further out into the ocean at precisely the moment when Bruna was still conscious and able to be seen. The fire department intercepted the fishing boat on its way back to shore and transferred Bruna to a rescue vessel, then to the floating platform at Ilhabela, where she received medical attention.
Dheoge has not been found. The search continues, but as days pass, hope fades. The Navy and Civil Police are still gathering evidence, still examining the jet ski, still trying to understand how a Sunday afternoon ride turned into a maritime disaster. For now, Bruna's survival stands as the only resolution to a story that remains, in its essential detail, unfinished.
Citações Notáveis
The current was strong and pulling us toward open water. My colleague did not remove his life jacket, and I did not see him going under.— Bruna Damaris Sant'Anna da Silva, in an Instagram post after her rescue
God put us here to save this life.— Alex dos Santos, the fisherman who rescued Bruna
A Conversa do Hearth Outra perspectiva sobre a história
How does someone survive more than forty hours in open water without a boat or raft?
The life jacket. That's what kept her afloat when everything else failed. Without it, she would have sunk hours before the fishermen found her.
But forty hours is a long time to stay conscious, to stay alert enough to be spotted.
It is. The cold, the fear, the exhaustion—all of it works against you. She was described as very weak when they pulled her out, her hands white from the strain. The fact that she was still visible, still able to be seen, depended on chance and on those fishermen deciding to venture into deeper water at exactly the right moment.
The fisherman said it felt like divine intervention.
He did. And there's something to that feeling—not necessarily religious, but the recognition that survival often comes down to luck, to being in the right place when someone is looking. If they had stayed in their usual fishing grounds, if they had turned back five minutes earlier, she would have been lost.
What about her companion? Why hasn't he been found?
That's the question no one can answer yet. She says she never saw him remove his life jacket, never saw him go under. But he's gone, and the sea doesn't always give back what it takes.
Do authorities know what caused the jet ski to fail?
Not definitively. They're investigating mechanical failure as the most likely cause—that the machine simply broke down, took on water, and sank. But they're also checking the operator's credentials and the equipment's documentation. It will take time to know for certain.
And Bruna—what happens to her now?
She survives, she recovers, she lives with the memory of those forty hours and the loss of someone she knew. The investigation continues, but for her, the immediate crisis is over.