Those who died due to the maritime strike in Tenerife did not pass the security seal

The four victims are tourists who violated the seal of the space, closed since Friday due to the pre-alert declaration for dangerous coastal phenomena, decreed by the government of the Canary Islands. It is a puddle exposed to waves, which is why “there are signs that warn of danger and that is why it is fenced and sealed when there are alerts”, although “many people ignore the restrictions and go to the site due to its promotion on social networks”, lamented the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro.

Every day, he denounces, many tourists go around the seal by prying on the fences and go underneath to swim there. The Local Police and the Civil Guard work constantly to maintain the seal and the fence and it is common for them to evacuate bathers from these areas. They are “very beautiful places, but they carry a danger and we must respect it,” Navarro stressed.

“We constantly warn of these dangers”, but “more and more people, especially tourists”, do not respect the signs when they see these places promoted on social networks,

The deceased are a 35-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and an unregistered man, and it is currently known that two of the victims are of Romanian and Slovak nationality.

Four dead in Tenerife

A fourth victim was added to the deaths on Sunday morning, a woman who was able to be resuscitated using cardiopulmonary maneuvers after being found in cardiopulmonary arrest at sea. The woman was rescued from a jet ski by a rescuer and evacuated to the dock, where SUC personnel performed advanced resuscitation maneuvers to reverse the cardiopulmonary arrest and stabilize the affected woman. She was then transferred by ambulance to a medical helicopter for air evacuation to the Nuestra Señora Hospital in Candelaria. Despite efforts to save her, she ultimately could not overcome the effects of her arrest and died in hospital.

The accident occurred this Sunday around 4:07 p.m., when in the basin known as Crab Island, a large wave hit several people who were in the area and dragged them towards the rocks.

The wave swept away seven people

In addition to the deceased, another person is hospitalized with serious head trauma. In this storm, up to seven people were swept away, several of them were slightly injured and were treated by medical teams sent to the scene for trauma and signs of drowning.

During the day on Monday, the search for at least one missing person continued. “We are trying to locate a possible drowned woman who is still missing,” says the Civil Guard, who works in collaboration with the Maritime Rescue media who are searching the area in search of a swimmer who has not yet been located.

Although the tragedy shook the island of Tenerife, the unrest lasted only a few hours for several tourists who, even today and while the search for the missing swimmer remains active, ignored the access ban and the signs warning of the risk in Spanish, English and German, and had to be evacuated by the security forces.

A similar accident last month

This natural pool, known as Crab Island, was the scene of a fatal tragedy, a month after a similar incident where three people lost their lives and a dozen were injured. In this case, on November 8, the incidents occurred on the Roque de Las Bodegas beach in Taganana, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the El Cabezo beach in Granadilla de Abona and on the pier of Puerto de la Cruz, in the north of the island of Tenerife, where a shipwreck in the sea dragged ten people into the water.

The Canary Islands consolidate themselves as one of the communities with the most drowning tragedies in 2025, with 67 deaths recorded until November. The Santiago del Teide town hall has declared three days of official mourning.