06/11: 3 people left near Nador on a Jetski, fate unclear

07.11.2020 / 16:42 / Western Mediterranean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 6th of November 2020

Case name: 20201106-WM522

Situation: 3 people left on white and yellow jetski on 4th November near Nador, fate unclear

Status of WTM Investigation: investigation ongoing

Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean

Summary of the Case:

On 6th of November 2020 at 23:04h CET the Alarm Phone was called by a community member. The person stated that 3 people left on a white and yellow jet ski at a beach near Nador at 4th November. The people could not reached anymore.

On 7th November at 00:03h CET the Alarm Phone called Salvamento Maritimo (SM) Madrid. They couldn’t give information and advised to send an email which was done at 00:32h. All day the travellers weren’t reachable and calls to SM Madrid and Almeria around noon didn’t bring any light into it. In the evening a worried relative called the Alarm Phone. The travellers were still not reachable.

On 8th of November it was the same: Travellers unreachable and the authorities without information.

On 9th of November the Alarm Phone learned that a lot of cases happened during the last day but the authority refused to match any names which the Alarm Phone had obtained by the relative.

On 17th of November still no news about the travellers, their fate remain unclear.

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