How bad would your life have to be to swim out to an oil tanker’s rudder with a plan of clinging to it for dear life for over a week in the faint hope of arriving in Europe? Well, three Nigerian men did it in 2022, crossing 2,800 nautical miles of open ocean.
The ship was the oil tanker Althini II, which left Lagos, Nigeria, on its oceanic journey, arriving 11 days later in Gran Canaria. Upon arrival, the three men were discovered by the Spanish Coast Guard and rescued. They were in a truly desperate state, suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.
