Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 16th of October 2018Case name: 2018_10_16-AEG442
Situation: Distress situation in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Closed
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Tuesday, the 16th of October 2018, the Alarm Phone was contacted at 6.30am CET and informed about a boat in distress carrying 33 people, including 19 men, 9 women and 5 children. We received a phone number on the boat and were able to reach it shortly afterwards. The man on the boat shouted ‘help, children’ but no further information could be obtained. We were able to speak again at 6.53am and 7.04am where we received their GPS position, showing them east of Chios Island/Greece. At 7.24am we spoke to the Greek coastguards and they confirmed that they had been informed about this boat already and would carry out a search and rescue operation. We passed the GPS position we had received on to them. For several hours afterwards, no contact to the boat could be established. At 11.43am, we spoke to the Greek coastguards again and they confirmed the rescue of the boat.
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