A man has died at Playa de Troya in Adeje in the south of Tenerife. Beachgoers pulled him out of the water on Tuesday morning after he showed signs of drowning and immediately began resuscitation. The emergency in the water in Adeje was reported to the 112 emergency call centre at 8.21 am.
According to the incident report from the Canary Islands Government, the man was in cardiac arrest at the time. A dispatch coordinator from the emergency services spoke to the callers. He instructed them to continue resuscitation using basic and advanced life support techniques, and dispatched an emergency doctor’s vehicle and an ambulance to the beach.
On arrival, the crews could only confirm that the man had died. The local police and the Policía Nacional secured the area and assisted the emergency services. According to reports from the 112 emergency call centre, this brings the total number of people who have died in a water-related accident in Tenerife this year to 13.
Tenerife: Number of drowning deaths lower than last year
During the same period last year, the 112 emergency call centre reported 17 such deaths on the island. The figure is based solely on published reports from the 112 service; not every death in the water is recorded there. On Fuerteventura, too, a man recently died in Costa Calma after rescuers had pulled him from the sea. This is shown by the tally of water-related deaths on Fuerteventura.
The previous fatality on Tenerife was on 15 September in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Before that, people died on 12 September in El Rosario, and on 2 September, 19 August and 18 August, all in Santa Cruz. The five previous deaths therefore all happened in the capital or in the neighbouring town of El Rosario in the north-east of the island.
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