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Navy Sailor Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV was declared lost at sea on July 30, two days after he went missing during a training exercise onboard the USS George Washington

His dad, Jose Rivera III, opens up to PEOPLE about the moment he learned his son was “involved in a man overboard incident”

He also reveals the final words he said to his 19-year-old son

Jose Rivera III , the dad of the late Navy Sailor Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV , is recounting the moment when his “universe imploded.”

Speaking with PEOPLE, the grieving father, 63, recalls receiving a heartbreaking call informing him about his 19-year-old son , who went missing on Monday, July 28, during a training exercise onboard the USS George Washington in the Indian Ocean just north of Australia.

“So I get ho

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