05/10: 63 people left Nador, rescued by Salvamento Marítimo to Motril

06.10.2019 / 09:25 / Western Mediterranean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of October 2019

Case name: 2019_10_05-WM420
Situation: 62 travellers reached Spain
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean

Summary of the Case:
On 5th of October, the Alarm Phone shift team was informed at 15:45h CEST about a black boat with 62 people, all men, which started in the early morning from Bouyafar Last contact has been at 09:00h CEST. One hour later all attempts to reach the travellers directly failed but the shift team learned that Salvamento Marítimo (SM) was already searching for the boat. At 17:15h CEST the Alarm Phone spoke to SM and got the information that one boat was spotted. At 18:40h CEST a rescue was confirmed by SM. Because the details of the boat and the passengers corresponded with the information the Alarm Phone had received from the contact person, it is assumed that the rescued boat is the boat the Alarm Phone was alerted to. All passengers were brought to Motril.

Last update: 16:48 Nov 03, 2019

Credibility:

Border police patrols
While the exact location of patrols is of course constantly changing, this line indicates the approximate boundary routinely patrolled by border guards’ naval assets. In the open sea, it usually correspond to the outer extent of the contiguous zone, the area in which “State may exercise the control necessary to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws” (UNCLOS, art. 33). Data source: interviews with border police officials.
Coastal radars
Approximate radar beam range covered by coastal radars operating in the frame of national marine traffic monitoring systems. The actual beam depends from several different parameters (including the type of object to be detected). Data source: Finmeccanica.
Exclusive Economic Zone
Maritime area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which the coastal state exercises sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters. Its breadth is 200 nautical miles from the straight baselines from which the territorial sea is measured (UNCLOS, Arts. 55, 56 and 57). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans
Frontex operations
Frontex has, in the past few years, carried out several sea operations at the maritime borders of the EU. The blue shapes indicate the approximate extend of these operations. Data source: Migreurop Altas.
Mobile phone coverage
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network coverage. Data source: Collins Mobile Coverage.
Oil and gas platforms
Oil and gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Data source:
Search and Rescue Zone
An area of defined dimensions within which a given state is has the responsibility to co-ordinate Search and Rescue operations, i.e. the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. Data source: IMO availability of search and rescue (SAR) services - SAR.8/Circ.3, 17 June 2011.
Territorial Waters
A belt of sea (usually extending up to 12 nautical miles) upon which the sovereignty of a coastal State extends (UNCLOS, Art. 2). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans