The first boat of the day was detected by Salvamar Al Nair in the north of Lanzarote, with 39 Maghreb men on board, who were transferred to the port of Arrecife.
Shortly afterwards, the Sasemar 103 plane reported that it had sighted four more boats while tracking the Atlantic strip located south of Gran Canaria, where two of the most active routes converge these days, those that come from Bojador and Dajla, in the Sahara.
Three of those boats set off from these two towns, according to what the occupants, some sub-Saharan Africans and others from Maghreb, have told the Red Cross when their occupants arrived at the port of Arguineguín.
In the first, 17 people traveled (all men); in the second, 42 (36 men, four women and two minors); and in the third, 41 (24 men and 17 women).
The fourth vessel detected by the plane has already been rescued by Guardamar Talía, which is heading to the port of Arguineguín with its occupants: 50 sub-Saharan immigrants.
While these rescues were taking place, the Civil Guard intercepted a dinghy with 36 people of Maghreb origin on board about twelve kilometers from Punta Rasca, in the south of Tenerife.
The group, in which there were three women, was transferred to the port of Los Cristianos by Salvamar Alpheratz.
