The puddle of the Tancón, actually a bufadero, in Santiago del Teide, is a paradisiacal enclave on the southwest coast of Tenerife where six people have lost their lives in the last four yearsAccording to data from the Canarias platform, 1,500 kilometers of coastline. This Monday, the young woman who had been injured in the Tancón cave accident last Thursday, August 19, died, when the onslaught of the water and its subsequent suction surprised four bathers. One of them, a 27-year-old Italian man living in Tenerife, he was rescued lifeless the next day by the search engine, which initially could not find him precisely because of the bad state of the sea.
Two other people were slightly injured and a third was rescued in critical condition. Is about a 33-year-old Swiss girl that given the seriousness of her condition, she was transferred to Our Lady of Candelaria University Hospital and awaited the arrival of his relatives during the weekend.
The deceased I had come to Tenerife to spend a few days on vacation and like so many other tourists wanted to know the Tancón area. It now becomes the sixth fatality in this environment of Santiago del Teide in just four years.
Despite of accidentVisits to this site in the municipality of Santiago del Teide have continued. In an interview with the COPE chain, a Canarian who survived an accident in the El Tancón cave has recounted her traumatic experience that she lived one afternoon in August 30 years ago. Listen to the full interview here.
Alejandra Green she launched herself later than the men did, just at the moment “when the suction began” and she was trapped under almost three meters of water, holding her breath to avoid drowning. At that time, according to his account, he began to pray and saw fragments of his life pass by “I especially remembered the first communion”, while he watched as “bubbles of oxygen came out.”
The quick acting of his brother and his friends saved his life. According to account COPE, they made a human chain with their feet and hands, to get it out of there. “I grabbed the rocks with my nails,” he recalls.
Following the recent tragic events at the site, he asks people to think twice before going, as “the cave is closed, although people are constantly breaking the seals.” “Not everything goes for a photo for the posture”, concludes.
