18/12: 1 boat with 44 ppl rescued to Samos, 1 group landed on Symi

19.12.2018 / 11:15 / Aegean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 18th of December 2018
Case name: 2018_12_18-AEG470
Situation: AEG-1 boat with 44 people rescued to Samos, 1 group landed at Symi and needed rescue after landing
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea

Summary of the Case: On the 18th of December at 2.11am CET, the Alarm Phone was alerted to two boats. The first, of 29 travellers, had landed on the island of Symi and needed help to exit the place of landing. The second was a boat of 54 travellers (including 16 children, and 15 women) that was rescued by the Greek Coastguard later.

In the first case, the Alarm Phone was alerted at 2.11am that 29 travellers (including 1 pregnant woman) were stranded in the forest on the Greek island Symi. It was cold, and there were several children, and they were not able to exit on their own. The shift team contacted the local police in Symi, as well as the port authority. Finally, around 4.35am, the shift team was told that the police had used a large boat and rescued them.

In the second case, the shift team was contacted at 2.15am about a boat of 54 travelers (including 16 children, 15 women, one of whom was pregnant). The pregnant woman on board was not in a good condition, and at 2.51am, the Alarm Phone received confirmation that they wished to be rescued. The shift team then called the Greek Coastguard, which had a boat near the last known position of the travelers. The shift team lost contact with the boat, but remained in touch with the coastguard. Finally, at 10.06am, the shift team received confirmation that the travelers had been rescued to Greece.
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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