Three desperate migrants clung to the rudder of an oil tanker for 11 days in search of a better life
The three men were discovered freezing and dehydrated on the ship’s rudder, inches from the water, after the vessel sailed to the Canary Islands from Nigeria, Spain's Maritime Rescue Service said.
The men, found on the Alithini II oil tanker at Gran Canaria's Las Palmas port, appeared to have symptoms of dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to hospitals on the island for medical attention, Spain's Salvamento Maritimo said.According to the MarineTraffic website, which tracks ships, the Malta-flagged vessel left Lagos, Nigeria, on November 17 and arrived in Las Palmas on Monday.
Though extremely dangerous, it is not the first time stowaways have been found travelling on the rudder of commercial ships to the Canary Islands. Last year a 14-year-old Nigerian boy was interviewed by Spain's El Pais newspaper after surviving two weeks on a ship's rudder. He had also departed from Lagos.
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