03/10: Two boats in distress, one rescued to Samothraki, one stranded on Symi

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  In Distress   Stranded

04.10.2019 / 10:24 / Aegean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 3rd of October 2019

Case name: 2019_10_03-AEG587
Situation: all travellers rescued to Greece
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea

Summary of the Case:
On 3rd of October we had been alerted to two cases in the Aegean Sea. In the morning our shift team was alerted to a boat in distress West of Samothraki. At 7:22am CEST we alerted the Greek coastguard who had been alerted already by relatives of the travellers, they stated they had just detected the boat and asked us to inform also the relatives. At 8:30am CEST the port authorities of Samothraki confirmed the arrival of the travellers in the port.
Later the day at 12:55pm CEST we got alerted to a group of 6 people, among them 2 women, one of them pregnant who had been stranded on Symi. We have been in direct contact and received a GPS position. At 13:45pm CEST we alerted the Coastguard in Symi. On our later we were told that the Greek coastguard is on their way. Afterwards we lost the contact to the travellers but got the confirmation of their rescue finally at 16:55pm CEST.
Last update: 17:27 Nov 03, 2019
Credibility: UP DOWN 0
Layers »
  • 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

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