02/11: 65 people from Zuwara probably reached Lampedusa

03.11.2020 / 21:58 / Central Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 2nd
of November 2020


Case name: 2020_11_02-CM317
Situation: 65 people who had left from Libya were very close to Lampedusa at the
last contact with the Alarm Phone
Status of WTM Investigation: concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case:
On November 2nd, 2020 the Alarm Phone was called by a boat in distress which had departed from Zuwara, Libya. The people on board told us
there was a pregnant women and babies with them and that there was a hole in the boat and water entering. They had no life vests and asked
urgently for rescue. We wrote an email to the Italian and Maltese authorities at 17.55h CET and passed their GPS position. We constantly spoke to the people on board and forwarded their updated
position to the authorities. At 18h CET the people told us they saw a drone flying just above them and that they put on the light of their
phones. Although rescue was demanded several times and the people
were exhausted and afraid of death, their was none. But the
travellers managed to proceed and at our last contact at 01.57h CET
on 3rd November they were about 20nm off the coast of Lampedusa.
Unfortunately it was not possible to get confirmation but we assume
they arrived to Lampedusa.
Last update: 15:26 Feb 16, 2021
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