Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 28th of November 2019
Case name: 2019_11_28-WM428
Situation: 30 travellers on their way to the Canary Islands rescued and brought back to Dakhla.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case: On Thursday the 28th of November at 8.28am CET the Alarm Phone was alerted by a relative to a boat carrying 30 people, including 11 women and four children. The boat had left from Dakhla at 6am the same morning, but was already adrift as their engine had broken. We reached the travellers who confirmed that they were in distress, and immediately after called the Moroccan rescue authorities and passed on the information we had. After this we were no longer able to reach the travellers, but managed to receive updated positions via the relative. At 10.25am we spoke to the Moroccan rescus authorities again, but they had no news about the ongoing operation. Half an hour later, we called them back to forward them an updated position, and only five minutes later they called us to tell us that they had found the boat and were carrying out the rescue operation. The next morning we were contacted again by the relative who confirmed that they had spoken to the travellers who were all safe.