Agents of the National Police have prevented the drowning of two women, aged 30 and 32, from the Netherlands who were kitesurfing in Motril, on the coast of Granada, who were being dragged by the currents out to sea while they remained tangled in the strings from their kites and exhausted by the effort of staying afloat.
A patrol from the Motril-Torrenueva Costa Police Station was carrying out its crime prevention duties, as members of a Citizen Assistance Group, when, around 5:00 p.m. last Wednesday, they were summoned by a man who He informed them that two women were out to sea asking for help.
They immediately reported the event to 091 and the rest of the emergency services, since they located them out to sea, on the Camino del Pelaíllo beach, after which they tried not to lose sight of them to “inform the assistance services about their location and to be aware of the evolution of the incident”, as detailed by the National Police in a note this Friday.
Other national police officers, also belonging to the citizen security brigade, who were on duty patrolling the towns of Motril and Torrenueva Costa, contacted them inquiring about whether any service had come to the rescue and their situation with respect to the shore. The response was decisive, the women were very far from the shore, “the kites could hardly be seen, and they had not yet received help.”
Once they heard the companion’s response and faced with the obvious danger that the lives of the kisurfers were in, the agents decided to immediately go to the Motril Sports Club where one of the members had his private boat docked, believing that it was “the most quickly to reach the women and be able to rescue them in time.
After observing that no other emergency services were yet in sight, they left the port to meet the first of the girls, whom they located about two nautical miles from the dock and a mile and a half from the coastline.
During the rescue, they found that she was wrapped between the strings of the kite, leaning on the float and exhausted by the effort to stay afloat. Once untied, they put her on the boat. The second woman was located another nautical mile out to sea from the location of the first and in the same situation, and she was also released and rescued.
Once back at port with both women, they were offered medical assistance to assist them due to symptoms of hypothermia, as well as a bleeding wound on the foot that one of them had. However, they did not need such assistance and only accompanied them to change their wet equipment for dry clothing that they kept in their vehicle parked nearby.