Overview
- About 40 people were located roughly 400 meters off Costa del Silencio on Monday morning after an alert at around 07:30.
- Salvamento Marítimo dispatched the Salvamar Alpheratz to accompany the Tenerife cayuco to the port of Los Cristianos.
- On Sunday afternoon, a Guardia Civil patrol boat, Río Tajo, spotted a cayuco about 11 kilometers off El Hierro and notified rescue controllers.
- The Salvamar Navia relieved the patrol and escorted the El Hierro vessel to La Restinga, where 21 people disembarked and received immediate attention.
- Officials reported the 21 people in El Hierro were all men of sub‑Saharan origin and were in good general health, according to counts relayed to EFE.