Scare early this morning on Coma-ruga beach, in El Vendrell (Baix Penedès). Two children were playing with their inflatable float in the water when the current began to carry them out to sea around eight o’clock. The mother of the two minors, seeing that her children were moving away without being able to do anything to get them out of the water, alerted the emergency services a few minutes after eight in the morning.
The mother explained to the Maritime Rescue officers that she still had her two children in sight, sailing on the inflatable float, but that they were heading out to sea, pushed by the current. After assessing the situation, and seeing that the two children, aged nine and eleven, were already far from the beach, the mother was about to lose sight of them, the Tarragona Maritime Rescue Operations Center decided to mobilize one of its helicopters and a Civil Protection launch from Vendrell.
The boat has managed to rescue the two minors a few minutes later, safe and sound. At 8:38 a.m., barely half an hour after the call for help, the two children were rescued by the Civil Protection launch, according to sources from the Spanish Government.
Maritime Rescue has taken the opportunity to call for prudence in activities and bathing on the beaches, especially when it comes to minors. The state of the sea, like strong currents, is one of the factors that end up causing a greater number of rescues on the coast. So far this summer, 13 people have drowned on the Catalan coast. Not so many people had drowned at this point in the beach season in Catalonia since 2013.
