The Spanish coastguard have rescued three men who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.
In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways were shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II.
The Maltese-flagged Alithini II arrived in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on Monday afternoon after an 11-day voyage from Lagos, Nigeria, according to Marine Traffic, a ship-tracking website.
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The men were taken into the port and attended to by health services for dehydration and hypothermia, the coastguard said on Twitter.
A journalist and migration adviser to the Canary Islands government, Txema Santana, tweeted: “It is not the first and it will not be the last. Stowaways do not always have the same luck.”
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