The Emergency Health Services have not been able to save the life of a 17-year-old boy who died of immersion syndrome when he was bathing on the Los Taray-Matalentisco beach, in the municipality of Águilas.
Several calls to the 112 Emergency Coordination Center, around 5:00 p.m., reported a person having difficulty getting out of the water on Los Tarays-Matalentisco beach. Another person had come in to help her, but the strong surf was making it difficult to reach her.
Immediately, lifeguards from the Águilas Civil Protection Copla Plan by land, and by sea with a boat, have gone to the point where the bathers were, at the same time as a Local Police patrol of Águilas and a Mobile Emergency Unit were moving of the Management of Emergencies and Sanitary Emergencies 061.
The helicopter of the General Directorate of Citizen Security and Emergencies has also been released, with the Air Rescue Group of Specialists of the Fire Fighting and Rescue Consortium of the Region of Murcia.
Rescuers have located the unconscious young man who had difficulty getting out of the water. They have proceeded to their rescue and transfer to the beach, and started a cardiorespiratory resuscitation maneuver. The other bather who had come to his aid was able to get out of the water.
Immersion syndrome is one that can cause the sudden death of a person after immersion in very cold water as a result of thermal shock, generally due to cardiac arrest. However, the circumstances regarding this specific case are unknown.
Sanitaries of the Mobile Emergency Unit 061 have continued with the resuscitation work without success, after which they reported the death of the 17-year-old boy. The intervention of air resources with the rescue group has not been necessary.
