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Brazilian Influencers Drown at 'Devil's Throat' After Refusing to Wear Life Jackets to Take Selfies and TanAline Tamara Moreira de Amorim and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria died when a wave crashed into the vessel carrying seven peopleTwo Brazilian influencers drowned in a boating accident off the coast of São Paulo, per reports by local news outlets. After the vessel capsized on Sept. 29, G1 Globo reported that only five of the seven people on board were rescued.The bodies of the two other victims were later discovered, and both Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, were confirmed dead. In an interview with G1 Globo's TV Tribuna, the city's chief police officer Marcos Alexandre Alfino cited a testimony by the boat's caption and said that the two women declined to wear life jackets "because they were taking selfies.""They said that life jackets would get in the way of their tanning," Alfino added of the women, who were attending a party held on the ill-fated boat.