The Salvamar Alpherazt has rescued 61 Sub-Saharanfive of them minors, who traveled in a canoe to about 79 kilometers south of Tenerife, after it was located this Sunday morning by the sasemar 103 aircraft, Efe sources have informed Maritime Rescue.
The immigrants, all men, are in good health and are being transferred to the port of Los Cristianos, where the Salvamar is scheduled to dock at 3:20 p.m. (Canarian time), the sources have indicated.
The rescue of these immigrants has been coordinated by the two Maritime Rescue centers in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, the sources have indicated.
Rescue, in another operation carried out by his ship Miguel de Cervantes, he has recovered the four corpses that were found in a drifting inflatable some 278 kilometers away south of Gran Canaria, whose only survivor, a 27-year-old from the Ivory Coast, assures that 34 sub-Saharans were traveling in it.
The Miguel de Cervantes is heading back to its base, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where it hopes to arrive tomorrow, Monday, at 06:00 (Canarian time).
The Miguel de Cervantes ship has also recovered the drifting inflatable, whose survivor was rescued by a merchant ship yesterday, Saturday, and has reported to the emergency teams that 34 people were traveling on board and that he had been at sea for nine days.
