Barcelona — Spain's Maritime Rescue Service says it has rescued three stowaways touring on a ship's rudder within the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria. The lads, discovered on the Alithini II oil tanker on the Las Palmas port, appeared to have signs of dehydration and hypothermia and had been transferred to hospitals on the island for medical consideration, Spain's Salvamento Marítimo mentioned.
Based on the MarineTraffic web site which tracks ships, the Malta-flagged vessel left Lagos, Nigeria on November 17 and arrived in Las Palmas Monday.
Although extraordinarily harmful, it isn't the primary time stowaways have been discovered touring on the rudder of economic ships to the Canary Islands.
Final yr a 14-year-old Nigerian boy was interviewed by Spain's El País newspaper after surviving two weeks on a ship's rudder. He had additionally departed from Lagos.