Maritime Rescue left Morocco the rescue of the last shipwreck on the Canary Islands route despite the pilot's doubts

Some recordings of Maritime Rescue have determined that the rescue of the boat that sank this Wednesday on the Canary Islands route was left in the hands of Morocco, despite the fact that the search pilot who was in the area expressed doubts about the sovereignty of the waters where the boat was.

This is reflected in the audios, published by Cadena Ser, in which part of the conversation held by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center of Las Palmas and the pilot of the search plane is heard.

This conversation occurs after Caminando Fronteras notified Maritime Rescue of the coordinates of the vessel. The Coordination Center contacts the pilot to ask him to go to the coordinates provided and confirm the presence of the boat. In the conversation they ask him "not to enter the Moroccan SAR zone".

After confirming the presence of the vessel and giving some information about it, from the Center they insist that it not enter an "overlapping zone" and that it stay "about 4 or 5 miles from the limit" of the Moroccan SAR zone. "She is within our SAR zone," the Spanish pilot then warns.

However, from the Center they tell him that they are going to "inform Morocco" since "help is quite close."

The rescue of this boat lasted 12 hours, as the founder of Caminando Fronteras, Helena Maleno, denounced this Wednesday: "It is torture to have 60 people, including six women and a baby, more than twelve hours waiting for a rescue in a pneumatic that can sink at any moment".

Maleno explained to Europa Press that from Caminando Fronteras they were aware of the decision of Salvamento Marítimo to leave the rescue to the neighboring country because they were accompanying the organization itself, as well as the crew members and families, during all that time.