Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 6th of August 2019Case name: 2019_08_06-AEG555
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted migrant groups in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Tuesday, 6 August 2019, the Alarm Phone was alerted at 11.11h CEST to boat in distress, carrying about 25 people north of Nimos Island. We were never able to establish direct contact to the boat. In the afternoon, at 17.03h, the Greek coastguard confirmed to us that they had carried out a rescue and rescued 26 people. We believe this is the boat that we had been alerted to.
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