The well-known Spanish influencer Marina Rivera Saldañaalso known as Marina Rivers, has once again been the subject of criticism due to a photo he shared on his social networks. Over time, Marina has been involved in various controversies on social media, including statements about influencers and the acquisition of a house. However, this time her action involves a significant risk to her safety.
This Saturday, September 2, the influencer shared an image on her official X account (formerly Twitter) in an iconic place in Tenerife: the cave of El Tancónlocated in the town of Santiago del Teide. In the photos, the content creator poses in a bikini and, in the second image, she is seen swimming in the waters of the Canary Islands.
What Marina perhaps did not know or overlooked is that the El Tancón cave is not a safe area for swimming and access is prohibited. It is a “bufadero”, a natural formation in which the currents are unpredictable and it is difficult for rescue teams to intervene. In the past, several tourists have lost their lives at this location due to the dangerous conditions.
The community of users on Comments reflected concern for her safety, with statements such as: “The danger is real. It is not a swimming area, whether at low or high tide. It is a bufadero (natural chimney) where many people have lost their lives.” Others commented on the importance of common sense and responsibility when being an influencer.
This situation highlights how the actions of influential people on social networks can have a significant impact, both in terms of personal safety and the influence they exert on their followers.
“The tide rises, you don’t realize it and you drownbut being an influencer is not directly proportional to having common sense” or “I guess anything goes for the photo, even bathing in a forbidden and very dangerous place where people have died”, could be read in the comments to the publication.
He Tancón puddleactually a bufadero, in Santiago del Teide, is a paradisiacal enclave on the southwest coast of Tenerife where five people have lost their lives in the last four yearsaccording to data from the Canary Islands platform 1,500 kilometers of coast.
The last fatality He is a young man of about 27 years old, who on Thursday afternoon was taking a dip with three other people, of whom a woman was rescued and admitted in critical condition to the Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria University Hospital.
The boy’s corpse It was located and recovered this Friday by members of the Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) of the Civil Guard..
El Tancón is a bufaderoa cave generated by the erosion of the waves with an opening in the roof, through which air and water under pressure enter and leave, very frequented despite the fact that bathing is prohibited there, as various information billboards scattered at the entrances remind us.
But that doesn’t matter bathers eager for experiences attracted by the crystal-clear waters, the contrast of lights and shadows and the wild beauty of this environment, very popular on social networks.
Sebastián Quintana, promoter of the Canary Islands 1,500 kilometers of coast, tells Efe that El Tancón and the La Laja puddle, in San Juan de La Rambla, are perhaps the two most popular spots to take a wild dip, and at the time, of the most dangerous in the Canary Islands.
In 2018, four people died in those two puddles, two in each one.
Quintana indicates that in 80% of accidents in aquatic spaces the common denominator is “the negligence” of the bather, whether consciously or unconsciously, due to ignorance of the danger that the environment entails.
He maintains that there is “a basic conceptual error”, since “the wonderful orography of the coast” of the Canary Islands It is not dangerous in itself; “The danger,” he says, “begins when someone decides to get too close to a break, a cliff or a blowhole,” when they don’t take a bath.
Sebastián Quintana argues that apart from Possible environmental damage due to overcrowding of tourists There is “one key factor” that is being ignored: “risk.”
He emphasizes that in the majority of puddles, ponds and others there are no surveillance services, so the greater the number of bathers, the greater the probability of accidents.
Another change is their origin: before the outbreak of Covid-19 and its effects on the tourism sector, eight out of ten were foreigners, and now 70% of the incidents involve nationals.
Sebastián Quintana draws attention to a fact: The Canary Islands is the only autonomous community in which the first cause of accidental death is drowningfar above traffic accidents.
