23/03: 10 travelers started from Al Hoceima, rescue to Motril by Salvamento Marítimo

24.03.2021 / 11:58 / Western Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 23rd of March 2021

Case name: 2021_03_23-WM571

Situation: 10 men start from Al Hoceima towards Motril. Relatives lose contact. Rescue to Motril by SM.

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case: On the 23rd of March 2021 at 21:45h CET, the Alarm Phone hotline was called by a friend of a group of seven men (later it turned out they were ten
people). According to the caller, they had left at 08:00h CET from Al Hoceima, Morocco, in the direction of Motril, Spain. There were no news from the travelers since they left, and there was no phone number from the boat. At 22:11h CET, our shift team informed the Spanish Search and Rescue organization Salvamento Marítimo (SM) in Almería. They took our information, but
said that they could not give us any information about possibly matching rescues. We should call the Maritime Rescue Coordination
Centre (MRCC) in Rabat or the Spanish Guardia Civil. They also denied us the information if there were rescue assets out at sea at that
moment. At 22:20h CET, we called SM Madrid and asked for information about the missing boat. They did not have news. They stated not to
have found a boat carrying seven travelers. During the night, there were no news. The next morning (24th of March) at 07:26h CET, our shift team learned from the friend who had informed the Alarm Phone, that a relative of one of the travelers had heard of their rescue. But the information was not confirmed. At 07:33h CET, we learned that a relative was in direct contact with the travelers and the ten people were just arriving to Motril with SM.
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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