Three stowaways have been rescued after surviving 11 day, 2,000 mile journey on the small rudder of an oil tanker.
According to the MarineTraffic website, the Malta-flagged vessel left Lagos on November 17 and arrived in Las Palmas on Monday after an 11-day journey.Though extremely dangerous, it is not the first time stowaways have been found risking their lives to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, off north-west Africa, in this way.
In 2020 a 14-year-old Nigerian boy was interviewed by Spain’s El Pais newspaper after surviving two weeks on a ship’s rudder, at the mercy of bad weather and rough seas. He had also departed from Lagos.‘It’s not the first time nor will it be the last,’ tweeted Txema Santana, a journalist and migration adviser to the regional government of the Canary Islands.
He added that on previous occasions, the ship owner has usually been responsible for returning the stowaways to their point of departure. Thousands of migrants and refugees from north and west Africa have reached the Canary Islands irregularly in recent years.
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