24/06: 51 travellers in Central Med rescued by Ocean Viking

25.06.2020 / 15:13 / Central Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th of june 2020
Case name: 2020_06_24-CM255
Situation: 51 travelers rescued by Ocean Viking in central med
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea

At 04:04 am (CEST) the 24th of June, a boat called our nightshift team from the central Mediterranean sea. After difficulties to communicate, the travelers managed to transmit their GPS position which was clearly in Maltese SAR zone. We sent the information to MRCC Malta, MRCC Rome and to the rescue boat Ocean Viking, part of the #civilfleet. The people had left 25 hours before from Zuwara, Libya. We were told there was no food, water or fuel anymore on the boat, and that water was entering the boat, increasing the risk of capsizing. We got a new contact at 06:03am (CEST) with a new position and sent all information to the authorities, and then called MRCC Malta to check if they had gotten our mails and give them the position again. At 06:43 we got an email from Ocean Viking explaining that the rescue ship was currently near Lampedusa, proceeding South and would investigate this case. In the next 2 hours, we managed to reach the migrants several times, getting updated position with difficulties as the connection was very bad. We sent this new position to MRCC Malta Rome and Ocean Viking. The last contact to the boat was at 08:12 CEST. We tried to reach the travelers all day long but without success. Ocean Viking wrote to us and to the MRCC that they were heading to the position we sent them. At 15:30 (CEST) we got the information that Ocean Viking had successfully rescued all 51 persons.
Last update: 15:32 Sep 28, 2020
Credibility: UP DOWN 0
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  • 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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