The travellers were found by coastguards in a bank of mist.
A small patera boat with 73 immigrants on board, including 21 women and five children was intercepted by the authorities on Friday close to the coast off Motril.
A helicopter first spotted the Sub-Saharan immigrants at 1pm when some 18 miles offshore and the coastguard finally intercepted the boat when surrounded in a bank of mist.
Only one of the travellers was suffering from hypothermia, and treated on arrival in the port at Motril.
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