Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 4th of February 2019Case name: 2019_02_04-WM371
Situation: 49 left from Bouyafar rescued Spain
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 3:05pm CET on Monday the 4th of February 2019 the Alarm phone shift team was alerted to a boat with 49 people which had left from Bouyafar at 11pm the previous night (Sunday the 3rd of February). At 4:34pm we gave the Spanish search & rescue organsitation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) the information that we had about the case. At 5:17pm SM said that they had found a boat with 49 people on board which was still at sea and without phone signal. At 9:32pm SM informed us that the rescued travellers would arrive in Almeria over the next couple of hours. Throughout the case we were unable to make contact with the travellers on the boat, but at 10:27am the next day (Tuesday the 5th of February 2019) our contact person confirmed the rescue by SM.
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