The 29-year-old British guest of billionaire businessman Jon Hunt, missing presumed dead in the Santa Clara reservoir in the Ourique municipality, has still not been found despite exhaustive searches by specialist divers.
Richard Chapelow was on holiday in Portugal as part of a group of friends of Hunt’s son, Harry.
The search started a week ago and continues on Sunday, resuming at 08:00 this morning, according the District Relief Operations Command
The search has involved more than 50 emergency service workers, drawn from the Ourique and Odemira firefighting departments and includes a team of specialist divers.
Chapelow, who now has been missing for a week, was part of a group of 10 British holidaymakers on the reservoir. Six were in a speed boat towing four on a ‘banana boat’ inflatable float which may have flipped over.
Chapelow was one of the four that were thrown into the water but the only one who did not surface.
A statement from Jon Hunt sent to MailOnline read, “My family and I are devastated by the loss of Richard, following a tragic accident at Santa Clara Dam.
“Our thoughts and prayers are wholly with Richard's family, and we ask that both families are given space to grieve such a painful loss.
John Hunt, 65, founded the Foxtons estate agency in 1981, selling it for £375 million in 2007 and has other business interests including Pavilion, a business members' club in Kensington High Street. He is worth over £1 billion and has property interests in the Ourique area.
"We are working with the Portuguese authorities to understand what happened," the Hunt family said in a statement quoted by Sky News.
