31/10: 6 people crossed successfully from Lebanon to Cyprus

01.11.2021 / 11:23 / Lebanon/Cyprus

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 31st of October 2021

Case name: 20211031-LEB/CYP008

Situation: 1 boat rescued by the Port and Marine Police Cyprus

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Lebanon/Cyprus

Summary of the Case:

On the 31st of October the Alarmphone was informed about six men who departed from Arida towards Cyprus in the morning of the 30th of October. We were not able to establish contact with the people on the boat, therefore we only call the Rescue Operation Centre Beirut in the afternoon. At 16:29 CET we call the police migration information in Cyprus who tell us they have an ongoing rescue operation with 6 people in a small boat. At 21:45 CET we try to get a confirmation about the rescue but don't reach anyone at the police migration information Cyprus. At 22:05 the relative who informed us about the six people in distress tells us they were rescued and are brought to Cyprus. At 00:27 CET the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Lanarca, Cyprus, e-mails us to confirm the rescue of 6 men who departed from Lebanon on 31st of October at 15:00 CET by the Port and Marine Police of the Republic of Cyprus at position 34°49'N - 034°26'E. The six people were afterwards brought to am camp in Cyprus according to the relative and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Lanarca.

A contact in Cyprus told us today that the group is in the Camp.

twitter:

https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1455160711731154966?s=20

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