The sea guard 'Calíope' has rescued during the early hours of Friday to Saturday a canoe with a total of 221 people, one of them dead and four seriously injured, which was completely stopped on the high seas south of the island of Tenerife and had left from somewhere on the African coast, as reported by official Maritime Rescue and Red Cross sources.
The rescue began during the afternoon, after the Sasemar 101 plane located the canoe stationary about 82 miles south of the municipality of Granadilla de Abona. The Maritime Rescue Center in Tenerife mobilized the sea guard 'Calíope' and the patrol boat 'Río Tajo' of the Civil Guard joined the operation.
At around 11:20 p.m. the sea guard 'Calíope' proceeded to rescue the more than 200 people, sub-Saharan, who were on board and reported that one person was dead and four were semi-unconscious and had a serious prognosis. Helimer 206 was mobilized from the Center of Tenerife, which evacuated the four to the Tenerife North Airport. Two of them were referred to the Canary Islands University Hospital and two others to the Ntra. Sra. de la Candelaria University Hospital.
The sea guard 'Calíope', with the rest of the rescued people, headed towards the port of Los Cristianos, where around 5:25 a.m. today, Saturday, it began its disembarkation. Once on land, those rescued received health care from SUC personnel and Red Cross volunteers and 20 transfers were made to health centers for different pathologies.
