In the midst of so much unpleasant news, beautiful stories also occur. Although the truth is that the story that we are going to tell you next did not start well because the end could have been tragic. But luckily, there are almost always unsung heroes where they’re needed and this was one of those times.

Last Sunday, March 5, an elderly man who was in the Ocean Race area of the port of Alicante fell into the sea by accident. At that time, Ángel Castro Cebrián, a resident of Albatera, was walking around there with his wife and his children. They had decided to spend the day in Alicante and have some tapas there, not knowing that that day Ángel was going to become a real superhero.

Without hesitation, Ángel jumped into the water to rescue this man from drowning. «My reaction was to take off my bag and I yelled, what do I do?! because I don’t know how to swim, but I jumped in anyway and as I saw that I was more or less floating, I tried it”, Ángel admits in statements to this medium. He recounts that it was difficult due to various aspects: «When I come into contact with the water I notice that I am beginning to lack air, the water was frozen and I have Raynaud’s disease that causes a feeling of numbness and cold in some areas of the body, such as fingers and toes, in response to cold temperatures or stress”, this resident of Albatera tells us, and goes on to explain that “I was still swimming like a dog, I took the man back with the fear that he would It made him nervous and when he grabbed us we both went to the bottom, but luckily he reacted well, in the sense that despite how nervous he was he did not make any strange movement that endangered the rescue ».

The families of both and the witnesses were surprised and anguished, because the difficulty and danger continued: “I took him to the jetty with the bad luck that the man turned around me, as I could I turned him around but between the cold and my disease was very complicated, in the end everything affects. Even so, I managed to carry it as best I could to the breakwater and they helped us get it up. There I already turned around to go up the other side and not disturb, ”says Ángel.

The Port Police and a medical team in a SAMU unit immediately appeared, thanking Ángel for his courage and generosity, although they warned him that “it had been a very dangerous action because the sea temperatures were very low and the body did not react », insists this anonymous hero.

The medical team treated the man, put him on oxygen and took him by ambulance to the hospital. “I don’t know if he’s okay, because I haven’t heard anything again, but I would like to know that after taking him away he has recovered,” Ángel confesses to us, who has acknowledged that “all the people behaved very well with me, but I insisted that they would pay more attention to the man who had spent more time in the water.” They offered Ángel a hot drink and soup to keep him warm, as well as thermal blankets. “I also want to thank Pepe and his wife who were with me at all times preventing the cold from getting worse, because I was on a secluded bench so as not to hinder the toilets with the man, and the truth is that I was shaking.”

Laughing, he tells us the anecdote of the day: «My wife went to buy me clothes to change into because I was soaked, she went to look for a clothing store open on a Sunday, a complicated task, the only thing she found was women’s clothing, so she I wasted all Sunday walking and having tapas in Alicante with women’s clothes, but I didn’t care, the only thing that was in my head was that the man was fine ».

«I do not consider myself a hero, I am a normal person who has helped a person at that time, and more so being an older person. And although one does not know how to swim, at that moment one learns to do what is necessary”, confesses Ángel, this resident of Albatera who, after this act, although he does not consider himself a hero, has shown that his name is totally correct.