Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th of November 2018Case name: 2018_11_17-AEG459
Situation: Two groups of travellers in distress in the Aegean, one returned to Turkey, one arriving to Greece on their own.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Saturday the 17th of November the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to two boats in the Aegean sea. The first boat returned back to Turkey, whilst the second boat reached Samos on their own.
At 6am our shift team was alerted by a contact person to a boat in urgent distress, which had left from Turkey, forwarding us their number and position. At 6.37am we reached the boat and learned that they had been taken back to Turkey by the Turkish coast guard.
At 7.28am we were alerted by a contact person to a group of travellers in distress close to Samos. We were not able to reached the travellers, but informed the Greek coast guard at 7.55am. At 8.23am the contact person told us that the travellers had made it on their own to Samos, but that they still needed help to leave the beach they had arrived to. We therefore forwarded their position to the Greek coast guard, and soon after the contact person confirmed that the people were safe.
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