By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
October 21, 2026
On a January morning off the island of El Hierro, a wooden boat comes in under tow. It sits low and packed, passengers pressed shoulder to shoulder, almost all of them men in their twenties and thirties. Spain's maritime rescue service brings the hull alongside a patrol vessel; one man is carried ashore on a stretcher and does not move. Nobody speaks in the filmed sequence.