Officers of the Civil Guard belonging to the Provincial Maritime Service of Tenerife carried out a rescue with an added surprise. It all began when they were alerted by Maritime Rescue that there was a person adrift in the sea off the coast of Arona, in the south of the island.
One of the Civil Guard Maritime Service vessels, the Río Guadiato, was immediately dispatched there, specifically to the coast of Las Galletas, and began the search.
Shortly afterwards, they managed to locate a person. It was a 37-year-old man who was aboard a wooden pallet and was adrift.
After bringing him aboard a Civil Guard auxiliary vessel for assistance, a surprise unfolded. The castaway told the officers that his intention was simply to cross on the pallet to the island of Gran Canaria.
At the time of the rescue, this person was in good condition but beginning to show symptoms of hypothermia, so he was taken to the Las Galletas dock, where he was attended to by a medicalised ambulance to assess his condition.
