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Rescuing a horse that is exhausted to swim aimlessly around the Mar Menor is unusual, but can happen, and in fact happened this weekend.
For the first time in the history of the boat "Albufera" Maritime Rescue Service of Civil Protection in San Javier faced, on Saturday, to the rescue of a horse for unknown reasons he got rid of his rider when they were in camping near the Mar Menor.
The animal moved offshore unattended calls reaching your own travel half the distance that separates the island shore Perdiguera.
After receiving the distress call for the Emergency Service "112" of the Region of Murcia, assigned the work of search and rescue horse to the boat Albufera, San Javier, which quickly moved to the area where he was the rider who joined the vessel, initiating the search of the animal, which still took about 15 minutes.
When managed to locate him and lassoed came to tow the boat with a slow and careful operation to treat the animal, which showed signs of exhaustion, got back to shore alive, as happened to the astonishment of swimmers when they saw the spectacular end of the horse rescue out of the sea, on a beach in Los Narejos.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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