Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 09th of January 2019Case name: 2019_01_09-WM365
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to emergency situations in the Western Med
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Cases: On Wednesday the 9th of January 2019, the Alarm Phone was alerted by a contact person shortly after midnight to a boat carrying 12 people which had embarked from Achakar a few hours earlier. At around 1am, we received their GPS position, showing them close to the Moroccan shore. As the rubber dinghy was losing air, we informed MRCC Rabat as well as the Spanish Search and Rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) to the situation. At around 2.02am, we received the confirmation from our contact person that the boat had been found and the people rescued. They were returned to Morocco.
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