SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 29 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Salvamento Marítimo has rescued this Sunday a boat in which 58 people were travelling, including eight women and two babies, heading to the Canary Islands, according to sources from the public body. With this new boat there are already 279 migrants who have been rescued in Canary waters so far this weekend.
This morning Moroccan Maritime Rescue reported that when its unit was in a rescue operation for a small boat near Tan Tan, it officially requested the collaboration of the Spanish Maritime Rescue for the rescue of a second small boat 54 miles from Arrecife, sighted by the ship. Geo Ocean VI’, since it did not have the means in the area to rescue both vessels.
The Maritime Rescue Control Center in Las Palmas mobilized the salvamar ‘Al Nair’ and contacted the ship requesting it to escort the pneumatic until the arrival of the maritime unit. Around 1:00 p.m., the salvamar Al Nair spotted the boat and proceeded to rescue the people who were on board, all sub-Saharan.
After confirming again with the Maritime Rescue Control Center in Rabat that they did not require the collaboration of the Spanish unit for the rescue of the nearby boat Tan Tan, the salvamar ‘Al Nair’ returns with the rescued to Arrecife, where it has scheduled to arrive around 5:00 p.m.
