Photo shows 3 stowaways who were rescued from oil tanker’s rudder after likely 11-day ordeal

Barcelona — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says it has rescued three stowaways touring on a ship’s rudder within the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria. The males, discovered on the Alithini II oil tanker on the Las Palmas port, appeared to have signs of dehydration and hypothermia and have been transferred to hospitals on the island for medical consideration, Spain’s Salvamento Marítimo mentioned.
 
According to the MarineTraffic web site which tracks ships, the Malta-flagged vessel left Lagos, Nigeria on November 17 and arrived in Las Palmas Monday.
 
Though extraordinarily harmful, it’s not the primary time stowaways have been discovered touring on the rudder of business ships to the Canary Islands.

Last yr a 14-year-old Nigerian boy was interviewed by Spain’s El País newspaper after surviving two weeks on a ship’s rudder. He had additionally departed from Lagos.