Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 1st of November 2018Case name: 2018_11_01-AEG452
Situation: 19 travellers managed to restart their engine and arrive on island of Kos
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On the 1st of November at 12:16am CET the Alarmphone shift team were alerted to a boat carrying 19 people, their engine had stopped working. Once we received the GPS coordinates and made contact with the boat we informed the Greek coastguard of the case. At 1:45am we got information from the contact person that the boat had arrived to Kos by itself. At 1:50am we passed this information on to the Greek coastguard who said that they had just spotted a boat in the position we had sent and were approaching. At 2:07am we received confirmation that the boat had made it to land.
Last update: 23:19 Nov 18, 2018
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