Overview
- The Salvamar Navia located a cayuco this morning and is escorting it to port with arrival expected around midday, though passenger numbers have not yet been confirmed.
- Salvamento Marítimo also rescued and escorted a second vessel that was found about 81 kilometres from La Restinga, with authorities still awaiting an official occupant count.
- The Salvamar Dipha was sent after a Guardia Civil SIVE radar detection about 12 miles from the island and is searching for a boat that changed position and reportedly suffered motor problems.
- Rescuers are continuing a search for a cayuco first sighted roughly 33 kilometres south of El Hierro that later lost contact, and several cases remain developing with unknown numbers of people aboard.
- Officials have already brought hundreds of migrants to El Hierro this period, with one report citing 566 people landed from three cayucos, highlighting how repeated crossings challenge the islands’ rescue and reception systems.