Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 20th of February 2019Case name: 2019_02_20-AEG486
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to a 21 travellers stranded on Simi island, rescued by the Greek coast guard
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Wednesday 20th of February at 1.37am CET our shift team was alerted to a group of 21 travellers, including 10 children and five women of which two were pregnant who had stranded on the island of Simi. At 2.29am we managed to reach the group, who forwarded their position, and told us that they had already reached out to the Greek coast guard but had encountered communication problems as no one in the group spoke English. We immediately called the Greek coast guard on Simi, who told us that rescue was already on its way, and half an hour later we received the confirmation that they had reached the travellers, and were carrying out the rescue operation.
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