The Brazilian Navy rescued six Algerians 83 km off the coast of Spain on Friday night (2). The people, who were between 25 and 50 years old, were aboard a small boat with an outboard motor and asked for help from the School Ship “Brasil”, which was making an instructional trip between Italy and Portugal.
According to the military institution, the Algerians reported that they were trying to enter the European country when they were adrift. The Brazilians provided water, food and life jackets and called the Spanish authorities.
The ship’s captain, Ricardo Araújo, reported that “it was already dark, the wind was strong and the forecast indicated an even greater degradation of the atmospheric conditions in the following hours, which in fact occurred”, adding that there was no evidence that they had been there for a long time. a lot of time at sea.
By the beginning of August this year, the Brazilian Navy had already carried out more than 140 maritime search and rescue actions and the rescue with the lives of 292 people, only in national territory.
*with information from the Marine Agency
Source: CNN Brasil
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