Intense sun and humidity were effective in the port Valletta in the morning July 2006 where we come from malt on the trail of some fishermen Santa Pola They were stranded a few miles from the island for several days with the fifty immigrants they had released on board. certain death.
Until that success, which had difficulty finding a place in newspapers and news programs at first and was now commemorated in TV series. sea lawWe knew very little about Francis and Catherine; nor Pepe Durahis shy and devoted boss; nor of the nine Santapolero and Galician sailors who formed a crew that did not hesitate to enforce, without a crack, the “law of the sea” that in that environment required not to look away when someone needed help.
It turned out that the fishermen had not been fishing since a boat crossed their path, and everything on the Santa Pola boat, which had a capacity of 11 people and food, was shared among more than one person. sixty souls occupying this place at the time, including a little girl those who are entertained by a video The Little Mermaid They found him lost near the ship.
After the pain felt over the solution that could not be provided due to the storm (Malta’s inhumane attitude towards even the immigrants coming ashore, State Spanish and profile EU), real news for us (my colleague and friend accompanied me) Rafa Arjones), it was not the landing that ended those days of uncertainty for all and forced unemployment for the crew.
Really prize It was to get to know more deeply some of the heroes who, far from seeing themselves as the protagonists of an already inadequate human achievement, did not waste time belittling their importance and called “nothing” to those who wanted to listen to them. “about heroes” “heroes were Superman or Spider-Man” and that they are “of flesh and blood.”
The humility that characterized them all became even more visible in the hours after they landed, with the media already focused on their stories and some Maltese as they stocked their larders and bought provisions to return to the pit. He said they knew him and gave them a thumbs up or victory sign. “But we didn’t do anything,” his alter ego insisted Luis Tosar“exactly what we need to do.”
The same thing your son did. Easter twelve years later and when he took over Our mother Loreto, found himself in the same situation in the same waters. And it turned out that he was also created from flesh and bones.
The price of fiction: Pepi neither drinks nor plans to leave her husband
The Law of the Sea series, based on the humanitarian efforts of Francisco and the crew of the Catalina, introduced elements into the story that did not fully correspond to reality, but whose inclusion was justified since it was a work of fiction. Well. none Pepi Irles, woman Pepe DuraHer boss, whom she had been with for almost forty years, was thinking of never leaving him; He doesn’t like alcohol, which he hasn’t tried even by chance; nor is the family on the verge of losing the boat due to debt, three stories recreated in this work Alberto Ruiz and this has caused more than one resident of Santa Pola to ask the real heroes curiously about some “fact” of which they were unaware, although they had known them all their lives. Durá was not arrested during this feat, nor was the Maltese coastguard, although they made it difficult, they never opened fire on the fishing boat Santapoler.