Despite the constant warnings given by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and the different organizations in the face of the storm that is taking place in the Canary Islands, a tourist challenged the elements over the weekend Puerto Santiago, Los Gigantesin the Tenerife municipality of Santiago del Teide.
Images have been spread on social networks showing the two tourists putting their lives in danger in search of the perfect photo. Everything is worth a handful of likes.
In the imagesthat they have gone viral, you can see a man and a woman, standing on a group of rocks. The area where the tourists were was known to have been the scene of numerous drownings. Fortunately there was no tragedy to be regretted.
He Canary archipelago has recorded 56 drownings during the first nine months of the year, 22% more than in the same period of the previous year, chen 46 people lost their lives in water accidents. AND62% of the cases occurred on beaches and Gran Canariawith 22 deaths, is the island where the most people have died, according to the data provided by the statistical study prepared by the association for the prevention of accidents in the aquatic environment ‘Canary Islands, 1,500 km of coast’. Just yesterday, the lifeguards at Las Teresitas beach, in Santa Cruz de Tenerifethey rescued a 75-year-old man from the sea who was in cardiorespiratory arrest and is admitted in serious condition, according to the Emergency and Security Coordination Center 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands.
In the last two years, Accidents in aquatic environments show an increasing trend, pues while in the first nine months of 2023 56 drownings have been recorded on the islands, from January to September 2022 there were 46 and 39 in 2021. 85% of the deceased drowned after entering the water even when the red flag prohibiting bathing waved on the beaches or when the sea conditions were adverse, as the platform explains in a statement.
Of the 56 people drowned, the nationality of 32 is unknown, while 11 of the victims were foreigners: seven Spanish, two German, two British, one Irish, one Danish, one Czech, two Italian, one Polish and one Russian. Of the total, the study reveals, 48 were men and six women; The gender of the other two is not known.
Regarding the number of fatalities by islandsGran Canaria recorded the highest number of drownings, a total of 22, compared to 18 in Tenerife, eight in Fuerteventurathe five of Lanzaroteboth of La Gomera and one of The ironMeanwhile in The Palm and The Gracious There has been no accident of this type so far this year.
