Cristian Hunt, a Uruguayan citizen residing in Teguise, became the savior of the six people who managed to survive the tragedy of Los Cocoteros. According to his account, he realized what was happening when he heard the immigrants' screams after the boat capsized. When he went outside his house, he saw that a Local Police unit was already at the scene, but he still decided to jump into the sea with a surfboard, a sport he practices regularly, as he confessed.
Hunt, 39, married and father of two daughters, said he did not feel he was taking any risks, as he knows the area despite the poor sea conditions. "I knew what I was doing at all times," he said. Using the surfboard, he first approached a man he rescued, but who earnestly asked him to do the same with his son who was clinging to the wreckage of the wrecked boat. "He told me that if I didn't jump in, he would, so I did and got him out," he said.
The savior of the half dozen survivors also had the collaboration of a young man from the area who helped him to get one of the immigrants out alive. All those who were saved were clinging to wreckage of the boat: a gasoline can, ropes, pieces of wood...
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