Three Males Journey on Ship’s Rudder from Nigeria to Canary Islands, Survive 11-Day Journey

Reports declare that perilous crossings from North Africa to the Canaries have elevated within the latest previous after checks on the Mediterranean routes had been tightened. One such case that got here into the limelight included three males who survived the 11-day voyage from Nigeria to Canary Island by sitting on the ship’s rudder. The stowaways spent practically two weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean by balancing on the tank’s rudder simply above the waterline.

In line with Marine Visitors, a web site that tracks transport, the Maltese-flagged Alithini II arrived in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on Monday afternoon after an 11-day journey from Lagos in Nigeria. On their arrival, Spain’s coast guard got here to their assist, as they had been attended to by the well being providers for dehydration and hypothermia, said experiences.

In a picture shared by Salvamento Marítimo, a sea search, and rescue company that operates in Spain, three males could possibly be noticed sitting on the rudder and apparently unable to lie down and even sit up because of the restricted area beneath the vessel’s hull. The survivors had been from Nigeria, reported Washington Put up.

 

“This afternoon, the Salvamar Nunki rescued three stowaways situated on the rudder blade of the ship Alithini II, anchored within the docks of the port of Las Palmas and coming from Nigeria. They've been transferred to the port and handled by well being providers," learn the tweet alongside the photograph posted by the Spanish coast guard.

“The survival odyssey is way past fiction…It's not the primary and it'll not be the final. Stowaways don't all the time have the identical luck,” tweeted Txema Santana, a journalist and migration adviser to the Canary Islands authorities

As talked about, this isn’t the primary time that such circumstances of individuals stowing away on ships have been reported in that space. In October 2020, 4 individuals stowed away on the rudder of an oil tanker from Lagos once they survived for ten days earlier than being found by the police in Las Palmas.