Brit, 60, dies after being swept out to sea by huge waves with two other swimmers at Tenerife tourist hotspot
Brit, 60, dies after being swept out to sea by huge waves with two other swimmers at Tenerife tourist hotspot
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A BRITISH tourist has died after being swept into the sea by a wave in Tenerife. The holidaymaker, 60, was one of three people who got into difficulties at Los Gigantes natural swimming pool. Emergency crews including a rescue helicopter and firefighters rushed to the scene.
![[Natural swimming pool at Acantilados de los Gigantes, Tenerife.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2RRK936.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
A man was found face-down in the sea and choppered to a nearby football ground. Despite best efforts to revive him after he went into cardiac arrest, he could not be saved. The other two people swept into the sea, both women, managed to reach safety themselves.
One was taken to a health centre with minor injuries and the other treated for a panic attack. It is not clear if the survivors were relatives or friends of the man who died and what their nationalities were. Police have not commented yet. The tragedy occurred just before midday yesterday at the Los Gigantes natural pool in the municipality of Santiago del Teide, also known as Crab Island Pool on the island's west.
Although a concrete wall protects bathers, online travel site warnings advise tourists to stay out of the pool when ocean waves are high because they can wash back. Local officials have been urging people in the Canary Islands to take care near the sea this week because of the strong swell and heavy waves.
A spokesman for a regional government-run emergency response coordination centre said: “Emergency services intervened in the rescue of three people who had got into difficulties in the sea in Tenerife. “It occurred near to the Crab Island natural pool in the municipality of Santiago del Teide.
