Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd of June 2019
Case name: 2019_06_22-CM170
Situation: 40 people rescued to Malta
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On June 22nd, at 11:20pm CEST, the Alarm Phone received a call from a boat in distress carrying 40 people, only men. They had been on sea for 21 hours already and they didn’t have drinking water any more The people started to be very tired and reported that water was entering the boat. 10 minutes later our shift team received the first GPS position which was clearly in Maltese waters. At 11 :33pm we informed RCC Malta about the distress case. We remained in contact with the people and at 1.07am, RCC Malta sent us an email confirming that they would send an asset to rescue the people in distress.
As the boat was still moving we received updated GPS positions until 2.47am which we provided to RCC Malta. Around this time the travellers informed us that they saw a cargo vessel nearby which could also be proofed by trachking websites, but no rescue was launched. The whole night our shift team held contact to the people who repeatedly asked for help and when somebody would arrive to rescue them.
Around 7am the travellers told us that they could see a helicopter, then we lost contact to the travellers.
At 8.33am, nearly 8 hours after Malta had confirmed to us to send a rescue asset, we got the information from the authorities that they rescued the boat.
Last update: 18:05 Aug 08, 2019
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