A tragic drowning of two influencers after a yacht party where their overcrowded boat was sunk by a wave occurred after the women refused to wear lifejackets, authorities have revealed. Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, were found dead after their boat sank off a stretch of Brazil's coast known as the Devil's Throat.

Almost a month after the drownings police say de Amorim and da Silva Faria died when their overloaded boat was swamped as it returned to the Brazilian coast. Sao Vincente police commissioner Marcos Alexandre Alfino says the influencers had refused to wear life jackets. Commissioner Alfino said, "Some didn't want to put them on because they were taking selfies. They said that they get in the way of their tanning." He further explained: "All this is being determined very calmly to conclude if the fatalities were based on recklessness or negligence."

The captain, one of five survivors, said he had been ordered to take six influencers to the shore despite his boat having a maximum capacity of five passengers on the 29th September. The yacht was hit by a huge wave and was too heavy to ride it out and began to sink. The skipper told police he had tried desperately to save everyone. Da Silva's body was found first drifting out to sea and de Amorim, a mum-of-one Aline, who could not swim, was found a week later. Local media named the survivors as Vanessa Audrey da Silva, Camila Alves de Carvalho, Daniel Goncalves Ferreira, Gabriela Santos Lima and Natan Cardoso Soares da Silva.

Da Silva later told local media that a group of friends and influencers had met up to party on a luxury yacht and spent the day cruising and drinking. After their boat was swamped by a wave on the return journey, Da Silva managed to scramble into a life jacket and survived by clinging to rocks: "There was a moment in the water when no one could see anyone. I was fighting for life." Another survivor Camila Alves de Carvalho, says she clutched a life jacket in her hands and clung on for dear life: "There were very strong waves, we almost died. We didn't know how to swim."