The maritime branch of the Guardia Civil located and rescued the crew of a Moroccan fishing boat that had become lost and drifted around for four days.
The 4-man crew was rescued in the early hours of Saturday about 2.5 nautical miles off Nerja and guided back to Motril port in their own craft, arriving around 05.30h.
According to the crew, they had been hired to pick up an old fishing boat in the Moroccan port of Nador and sail it to Tangiers. They set off on the 9th but soon became lost as they had no navigational equipment nor means of communication.
The boat was barely seaworthy and was to be restored in Tangiers by its new owner. It was the new proprietor who had contacted the authorities to say that the crew not arrived.
Once docked in Motril Port they received food and assistance from the Spanish Red Cross. The Guardia Civil, in the meantime, have begun investigating into how it was permitted for such a craft to go to sea in the state it was and without means of fixing a course or bearing, nor being able to communicate their situation to land stations.
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Miguel Paquet (EFE)