translated from Spanish: Video: Tourists flee by boat from the eruption of Stromboli volcano

Volcanoes are known to be one of the natural attractions that attract people’s attention. The risk of being close to one should also be considered, given the possibility of it coming into action. This can be attested by the crew of a tourist ship who, as action films often show, fled a volcanic eruption that caught them off guard. As reported by CNN, the episode occurred on August 28 while Elena Schiera, a 19-year-old girl, and her family sailed in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea near the Aeolian Islands in Italy. The Stromboli volcano, located off the coast of Sicily, erupted in a surprise way, covering everything around it with a huge cloud of gases and spilling lava in several surrounding regions. The girl caught with her cell phone the moment they began to escape the cloud of smoke filled with ash, gases and high temperatures that was caused by the volcanic eruption. As the young woman recounted, they were sailing a safe distance from the volcano, when suddenly they heard a large burst and saw the smoke coming out of the crater. Fortunately the boat in which this family was travelling, commanded by Elena’s father, managed to be faster than that cloud and managed to get out unscathed.

Original source in Spanish