13 people rescued from two boats in the strait, including four minors

Last Saturday evening, Maritime Rescue rescued a total of 13 people who were crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in two small boats which were simple inflatable boats.

Sources from the Maritime Rescue Service informed Europa Press that after 9pm on Saturday, a person alerted the Maritime Rescue Centre in Tarifa by telephone that a boat without an engine was sailing in the waters of the strait.

In response, the rescue ship Salvamar Enif was mobilized, which, in its navigation towards the indicated waters, asked the ships transiting the area to inform it of any sightings related to the boat being searched.

And in this sense, the crew of a merchant ship communicated to the troops of Salvamar Enif the coordinates of a boat that had been sighted, and the rescue ship went to these waters, where six men were rescued.

After that, the crew of another of the alerted ships reported the sighting of a second boat, and the Salvamar Enif also went to this new reported location and rescued seven people, including three adults and four minors. Finally, the Salvamar Enif disembarked all these people in the port of Algeciras at dawn this Sunday.