Drowning at Costa Calma

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A woman dies after drowning at sea in Fuerteventura.

A woman died today, Thursday, February 17, after nine in the morning in the Costa Calma area in the municipality of Pájara, south of Fuerteventura.

 
Assessment of those affected provided by the SUC:

• Woman, deceased.
  

Services activated by CECOES 1-1-2:

• Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC): medicalized ambulance and basic life support ambulance.
  
• Local Police
  
• Civil Guard
  

Remarks:

• At the time indicated above, the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert in which it was communicated that they had rescued from the sea a woman with signs of drowning
  
• The 1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources.
  
• Other people who were at the scene began to practice resuscitation maneuvers.
  
• The SUC personnel found that the rescued woman, who had been located floating in the water, remained in cardiorespiratory arrest and continued to practice basic and advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers without obtaining results, confirming her death.
  
• Local Police collaborated with the rest of the emergency resources
  
• Civil Guard guards the body of the deceased until the arrival of the judicial authority and carries out the corresponding proceedings.