Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th of September 2018Case name: 2018_09_24-WM338
Situation: Boat carrying 57 people, including 4 children, rescued to Spain
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 2:03pm CEST on Monday the 24th of September the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a boat carrying 57 people, including 22 women and 3 children which had departed from close to Nador at 3am local time. Over the next few hours we tried to get a phone number for the boat, but were unable. At 4:26pm we contacted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) at the request of our contact person. At 4:34pm our contact person sent us the names of some of the travellers which we passed on to SM. At 8:50pm we learned that the travellers had been rescued to Spain.
Last update: 08:24 Oct 04, 2018
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