Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 19th of July 2020Case name: 2020_07_19-WM469
Situation: 34 people travelling through rough sea rescued to Canary Islands
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Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of the Case:
On 19th of July at 9 pm CEST we got informed about a boat with 34 people on board, amongst them 10 women and 11 children. They left from Dakhla, Morocco, at 3 am CEST on 18th of July. We tried to call the people but their phones were not reachable at this this time as well as in the following days. At 10:20 pm we called Salvamento Maritimo (SM) on the Canary Islands who was already informed. The man on the phone stated they would search by daylight, also for other boats that had left Morocco towards the Canary Islands. On 21st of July we reguarly called SM to gather information. Weather conditions were bad. At 10 pm SM told us about an ongoing rescue operation. Within the next days we tried hard to figure out the details of this and another rescue and to distinguish between the different boats. On 23rd of July we finally got confirmation by a relative of a traveller that they were safe on the Canaries.
Last update: 20:19 Oct 06, 2020
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