At least two men and women, aged between 35 and 55, died this Sunday afternoon, victims of a sea surge that lasted four days in a natural pool, in the Los Gigantes area (municipality of Santiago del Teide, on the east coast of Tenerife), as reported by the Emergency Coordination Center of the Canary Islands government. The Maritime Rescue and the Emergency and Recovery Group (GES) remained in the area as a precaution and a missing person appeared, as confirmed by the autonomous radio of the mayor, Emilio Navarro.
Furthermore, a woman was recovered from cardiorespiratory arrest and was transported in serious condition by helicopter to La Candelaria Hospital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Medical services served three other heirs, men and women.
On 16.07, Monday 112, the Centro Coordinador de Emergencias y Seguridad (CECOES) of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert informing of the fall into the sea of several people caught in a maritime strike.
112 immediately activated emergency resources. A maritime rescue helicopter located and rescued a living person from the water and recovered the body of a deceased person. For its part, the beach rescue service, on board a boat, rescued a woman in cardiorespiratory arrest and was transferred to the wharf, from where the staff of the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) applied advanced resuscitation maneuvers, managing to reverse the PCR and stabilize her before her evacuation in a medical ambulance and a medical helicopter for her air transfer to a hospital center. This same device also made it possible to recover the bodies of other deceased people.
The SUC also assisted other people who managed to get out of the water on their own, one of whom was transferred to a hospital.
A helicopter from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) carried out several air raids in the area while Tenerife Fire and Rescue carried out inspections with maritime assets. Initial information, without being confirmed by official sources, suggests that the deceased were tourists.
The Emergency and Security Coordination Center maintained an activated system in which the Helimer Maritime Rescue helicopter, other GES and other medical personnel from the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) arrived, as well as several ambulances, the Civil Guard, the Local Police and the health personnel of the area.
The General Emergency Department of the Canary Islands Government has kept the alert activated for coastal phenomena on several islands, including Tenerife, since the fifth day. Currently, the mayor of Santiago del Teide has confirmed that the area has been fenced and walled since the start of the alert.
In the first 11 months of the year, 60 people died in the Canary Islands, seven fewer (10%) than in the same period of 2024, according to data prepared by the Association for the Prevention of Water Accidents in the Canary Islands, 1,500 km from the coast.
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