“Now I have a house under the lava and a car under the sea. Except the lottery, I get everything.” These were the words that Matías said to COPE last Monday after his car fell into the sea from a ferry during this Holy Week.
The incident occurred on a sea voyage between La Gomera and Tenerife. It was a fairly common trip for Matías, who says he was in “shock” when he saw his 4×4 floating in the sea. Apparently, according to the protagonist, the ship was hit by the sea when leaving the port and the vehicle fell into the water.
“We were left without clothes, without the laptop and we lost things of sentimental value,” Matías clarified yesterday, who confessed to feeling relieved when he remembered that he had left his dogs in La Palma and they were not inside the car.
He noted that “if I had had them (the dogs), I would have jumped into the water, even if it was a mistake, because I would surely have been crushed to death by the ship’s propeller.”
Unfortunately, bad fortune once again accompanies Matías, who previously lost his home after the tragic eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano—now called the Tajogaite volcano after a popular vote among the palm trees.
During the interview he joked that “now I have a house under the lava and a car under the sea; everything except the lottery wins me everything,” and he recalled that once they got off the ferry after the car incident, he felt like he was reliving the situation that happened to him. live in 2021 after the volcano.
Once he has calmed down and several days have passed since the accident, Matías is “calm” and “satisfied” with the attention received from the Fred company. Olsen Express, owner of the ferry. He ended the interview by assuring that the company has lent him a replacement car and has guaranteed that they will take care of everything.
