The crew of the Tenerife fishing boat, the Roque del Águila based in Los Cristianos, were sailing back home on Tuesday on board the Lanzarote boat, the Santuario Barquereño, after their own vessel sunk off Western Sahara on Saturday.
The Roque del Águila was fishing for tuna when the boat’s alarms went off and the automatic pumps went into action as water poured through a 20 centimetre hole in the hull. The auxiliary pumps were brought into play, but were unable to cope with the flow of water.
The crew managed to escape on the life raft before the boat went down, and were rescued by another Canary Islands boat which was fishing eight miles away.
The owner of the Roque del Águila told La Opinión de Tenerife that it’s thought the hole was caused by a swordfish which was hunting for prey amongst the shoal of tuna which surrounded the boat.
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