A teen has been rescued almost 30 miles out to sea on a paddle board.

After being swept out to sea whereas paddle browsing at an Algarve seaside for 22 hours by an unexpected surge of wind, a younger woman is miraculously saved by container ship personnel within the Atlantic Ocean 48 kilometres off the coast of Portugal.

According to The Metro, Erica Vicente, 17, was discovered within the Atlantic Ocean final week after clinging to her board for expensive life when an enormous wind gust took her out to sea. Erica had been paddling alongside the shoreline when she was abruptly swept out by sturdy winds close to Monte Gordo in Portugal’s Algarve area. An enormous search and rescue operation was launched to search out {the teenager}, however they’d no luck.

Watch the rescue operation right here:

In a press release, the Portuguese Air Force talked about, on the finish of the afternoon of this Sunday, April 16, a service provider ship that was circulating alongside the Algarve coast noticed the younger girl and recovered her from the water. Emergency providers have been instantly activated, and an Air Force EH-101 Merlin helicopter was activated to the placement, with a purpose to rescue the younger girl and thus ahead her to a hospital unit.

Erica Vicente is now recovering on the Faro Hospital within the Algarve’s capital, Faro.

“She is fine, stable, and she is not dehydrated,” clinic director Horacio Guerreiro stated.

“At this stage, the sensitive thing is to see if her kidney function can be maintained, because with hydration there can be problems in terms of brain function, because sometimes if you force the intake of liquids, there may be situations of cerebral oedema, but we are not predicting that,” he stated.