Emergency services are conducting coastal raids this Monday as part of a coordinated operation to locate missing travelers and ensure public safety along the shoreline. In Vega Baja and the Murcia region, authorities are searching for ten individuals who were aboard a sunken boat that began to drift after Sunday’s incident. The alarm was raised to activate a search for ten missing people in the wake of the vessel’s collapse, triggering a rapid response from rescue teams across multiple jurisdictions. Two Algerian migrants, who had been adrift at sea for twelve hours, were rescued in San Pedro del Pinatar and subsequently transported to Alicante by the Maritime Rescue unit.
Rescuers located the survivors thanks to a fisherman working near the fish farms in San Pedro del Pinatar who helped facilitate their evacuation to the airport by a Marine Rescue helicopter. They were later transferred to the port of Alicante under the coordination of the rescue services. Red Cross personnel attended to the two migrants, with one of them hospitalized for a fractured finger after the ordeal.
The two rescued individuals reported that they departed from Algiers on the boat on the 23rd and were shipwrecked off the coast of Alicante province on Sunday, prompting a swift maritime response to prevent further loss of life.
Over the previous weekend, authorities intercepted a total of 31 migrants traveling on three boats, with two vessels sighted near Benidorm on Saturday and another eight miles from Cabo de la Nao in Xàbia. The latter vessel sank, and Salvamento Marítimo managed to save ten of the fourteen people on board. Four migrants remain missing, underscoring the ongoing risks facing those attempting to reach the coast by sea.
A fourth empty boat appeared Sunday morning at Cala Ferris in Torrevieja. This small, four-and-a-half-meter fiber boat contained clothes and water but no occupants, and the Civil Guard has launched inquiries to determine the vessel’s dry-land destination and the whereabouts of any residents who may have used it.
Maritime Rescue crews faced rough sea conditions this weekend, with waves complicating response efforts and making the coastline more perilous for anyone at sea. The ongoing operations reflect the persistent challenge of maritime migration in the region and the need for rapid, coordinated actions to save lives when boats encounter distress at sea.