22/01: 16 people traveling to Greece were rescued back to Turkey north-east of Rhodos

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23.01.2021 / 18:08 / Aegean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd of Januar 2021

Case name: 20210122-AEG745

Situation: boat in distress with no working engine north-east of Rhodos was brought back to Turkey

Status of WTM Investigation: concluded

Place of Incident: Aegean Sea

Summary of the Case: On 22 January 2021 the Alarm Phone received a call from a boat in distress on the way from Turkey to Greece, near Marmaris. There were around 16 persons on board. The engine of the boat stopped working and they asked for help. The people on board sent us two times their GPS position, then the contact got lost. We informed the Turkish Coast Guard at 01.26h CET and also Frontex who contacted the Hellenic Coast Guard.

The Turkish Coast Guard said to be searching for the boat but didn’t find it at the given coordinates. The Hellenic Coast Guard was also in alert for the boat, but in the end the Turkish Coast Guard told us at 08.49h CET to have found the boat in the north-east of the island of Rhodos and that the people on board also called them for rescue also by themselves.
Last update: 15:39 Mar 30, 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

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