Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of March 2019Case name: 2019_03_05-AEG492
Situation: 57 travellers landed on Farmakonisi
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Tuesday, 5th of March, at 4:50am CET, we were alerted to a boat in distress close to the island of Farmakonisi. We couldn’t establish a connection to the travellers, but the contact person sent us a new location shortly after and asked us to alert the Greek Coast Guard. We called JRCC Piraeus at 5:10am and also sent an email to the respective authorities to document the alert. At 5:33am, the contact person transferred us a new GPS position of the boat. At 5:33am we called the Greek Coast Guard to pass the new position. They informed us that the travellers were already rescued by a patrol boat. At 5:42am the contact person had reached the travellers again, they were not with the patrol boat anymore but had landed on the uninhabited military island Farmakonisi. They were with the Greek army, waiting for their transfer to Leros island. At 8:40am Leros Port authority confirmed that the travellers had been safely transferred to Leros. We couldn’t reach the travellers to verify with them as well, but he contact person confirmed the safe arrival.
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