The spokeswoman for the Canarian-PNC Coalition in the Congress of Deputies, Ana Oramasachieved this Thursday, February 24, 2022, the unanimous support of Congress for a non-law proposal that will establish a fixed post of Maritime Rescue in the north of Tenerife. The initiative that was supported in the Committee on Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda with a compromise amendment establishes the implementation of a permanent basis and a sea rescue vessel that it “guarantees, as is already done in other areas of the Island, a rapid and effective intervention that minimizes response time and avoids the loss of human life.” The nationalist deputy pointed out that today is an important day for the Island but also for a mother, Natalie Gonzalezwho “has been fighting since 2019 so that what happened to his son never happens again.”
oramas took advantage of his intervention in defense of the non-law proposal promoted by the nationalists to recount the event in which he lost his life the young Ale, 23 years old, on October 5, 2019 in Puerto de la Cruz. An event that, in his opinion, “could have been avoided if there had been maritime rescue means to rescue him.” The deputy recalled that when the resources arrived “more than an hour later and from another point of the island, Ale had already disappeared in that angry sea of the North of Tenerife”.
“The problem is that there were no media nor are there to rescue him from the sea because, until now, when they are needed, they have had to resort to maritime resources that are located in other more distant points, despite being a tourist and fishing area,” emphasized Oramas.
The nationalist spokesman He argued that with the approval of this initiative today “nothing can be done to change what has already happened, but a lot can be done to change what is to come.” Likewise, he acknowledged that “nothing we do is going to give Natalia the life of her son, but at least it can serve so that no one has to go through something so hard.”
“Nothing we do is going to give Natalia her son’s life back but, at least, it can serve so that no one has to go through something so hard”
Oramas pointed out that the implementation of this permanent base of Maritime Rescue with a fixed boat in the north of the island is also the struggle of Ale’s mother, who lost her life when she fell into the sea while taking a walk with her girlfriend in Puerto de la Cruz. And she remembered her story: “The young woman, who gave immediate notice of the event to 112, was rescued from the rocks by a specialist who dropped from a helicopter but although he insisted again and again that they also rescue Ale and pointed out the area where he was, no one came to his rescue and it was not until more than an hour after the warning when a Maritime Rescue vessel and another from the Special Activity Groups arrived. Underwater. But an hour is too long fighting the sea.”
Ana Oramas pointed out that the next day, “voluntarily Red Cross He put three jet skis to work in the search operation and, unfortunately, Ale appeared dead three days later near Puerto de la Cruz.” In this context, the deputy pointed to the “pain of a mother, during all those hours and those days, remaining on the beach waiting until the sea returned, already lifeless, the body of her son.”
The deputy highlighted that until now there are only three rescue vessels to protect the 342 kilometers of coast of Tenerifeone located in Santa Cruz of Tenerife (east of the Island); another in San Juan Beach, in Guia de Isora (West); and one last in The Christians (south), which “leave the northern zone unprotected in the face of an emergency in which it is necessary to act immediately in life or death situations.”
The spokeswoman for the Canarian nationalists claimed the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, “as quickly as possible” so that this permanent base becomes a reality in the shortest time possible. In the same way, he referred to the struggle of the mother of the deceased young man and the campaign that he launched through change.org and that already has more than 30,000 signatures registered with the movement. Get on the boat. Ale it was not your turn “to take to Parliament of the Canary Islands the non-law proposal of popular initiative for this maritime protection rescue post in the north of the island that this House has today made a commitment, that is closer to being a reality and that will make it possible, never again, mother sees herself for hours with her heart in her fist waiting for means to arrive from afar to save her son’s life “.
