At least two men and one woman, aged between 35 and 55 years, died this Sunday afternoon, victims of a sea strike at four in the afternoon in a natural pool, in the area of Los Gigantes (municipality of Santiago del Teide, on the east coast of Tenerife), as reported by the Emergency Coordination Center of the Government of the Canary Islands. Both Maritime Rescue and the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) remain in the area as a precaution in case a missing person appears, as confirmed to regional radio by the mayor, Emilio Navarro.
In addition, a woman was recovered from cardiorespiratory arrest and was transferred in serious condition by helicopter to La Candelaria Hospital, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Medical services have treated three other injured people, two men and a woman.
At 4:07 p.m., according to 112, the Emergency and Security Coordinating Center (CECOES) of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert reporting the fall into the sea of several people surprised by a wave.
112 immediately activated emergency resources. A Maritime Rescue helicopter located and rescued a living person from the water and recovered the body of a deceased person. For its part, the beach rescue service, aboard jet skis, rescued a woman in cardiorespiratory arrest and transported her to the dock, where the staff of the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) applied advanced resuscitation maneuvers, managing to reverse the CRP and stabilize her before her evacuation in a medical ambulance to a medical helicopter for air transport to a hospital. This same device also recovered the bodies of two other deceased people.
The SUC also assisted two other people who had managed to get out of the water on their own, one of whom was taken to a hospital.
A helicopter from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) carried out several aerial raids in the area while Maritime Rescue and Tenerife Firefighters carried out inspections with maritime means. The first information, still unconfirmed by official sources, suggests that the deceased were tourists.
The Emergency and Security Coordinating Center has kept a device activated in which the Helimer Maritime Rescue helicopter, another from the GES and another medicalized one from the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC), as well as several ambulances, the Civil Guard, the Local Police and health personnel in the area, have participated.
The General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands has maintained the pre-alert for coastal phenomena on various islands since the 5th, including Tenerife. In fact, the mayor of Santiago del Teide has confirmed that the area was sealed and fenced since the beginning of the pre-alert.
In the first 11 months of the year, 60 people have drowned in the Canary Islands, seven fewer (10%) than in the same period of 2024, according to data prepared by the Association for the Prevention of Aquatic Accidents in the Canary Islands, 1500 km from the coast.
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