05/10: 28 travellers stranded on Farmakonisi

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06.10.2019 / 10:45 / Aegean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of October 2019

Case name: 2019_10_05-AEG588
Situation: 28 travellers stranded on Farmakonisi and picked up the next day
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea

Summary of the Case:
On 5 of October we were alerted to a group of 28 travellers, among them eight children, one of them an only 10 days old new-born, who had been stranded on Farmakonisi. At 11:17pm CEST we alerted the Greek coastguard and passed them the GPS position we received. At 00:50am CEST the travellers told us: «Here is so cold. Our clothes is water.» When we called back the Coastguards some minutes later they stated that the group have been spotted on a place difficult to access and they could only reach it in daylight. At 05:47am CEST we tried to encourage the people who had not been rescued yet. When we investigated for an estimated time of arrival of the Coastguards we failed as at least four boats had arrived at that night on Farmakonisi. Finally, at 11:34am CEST on 6 of October the travellers confirmed to have been picked up.
Last update: 17:29 Nov 03, 2019
Credibility: UP DOWN 0
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  • Border police patrols
     
    While the exact location of patrols is of course constantly changing, this line indicates the approximate boundary routinely patrolled by border guards’ naval assets. In the open sea, it usually correspond to the outer extent of the contiguous zone, the area in which “State may exercise the control necessary to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws” (UNCLOS, art. 33). Data source: interviews with border police officials.
  • Coastal radars
     
    Approximate radar beam range covered by coastal radars operating in the frame of national marine traffic monitoring systems. The actual beam depends from several different parameters (including the type of object to be detected). Data source: Finmeccanica.
  • Exclusive Economic Zone
     
    Maritime area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which the coastal state exercises sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters. Its breadth is 200 nautical miles from the straight baselines from which the territorial sea is measured (UNCLOS, Arts. 55, 56 and 57). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans
  • Frontex operations
     
    Frontex has, in the past few years, carried out several sea operations at the maritime borders of the EU. The blue shapes indicate the approximate extend of these operations. Data source: Migreurop Altas.
  • Mobile phone coverage
     
    Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network coverage. Data source: Collins Mobile Coverage.
  • Oil and gas platforms
     
    Oil and gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Data source:
  • Search and Rescue Zone
     
    An area of defined dimensions within which a given state is has the responsibility to co-ordinate Search and Rescue operations, i.e. the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. Data source: IMO availability of search and rescue (SAR) services - SAR.8/Circ.3, 17 June 2011.
  • Territorial Waters
     
    A belt of sea (usually extending up to 12 nautical miles) upon which the sovereignty of a coastal State extends (UNCLOS, Art. 2). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans

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