02/05: 95 travellers from Zuwarah intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard.

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03.05.2021 / 11:27 / Central Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 02nd May 2021

Case name: 2021_05_02-CM425
Situation: 95 travellers from Zuwarah intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case:
In the early morning of Sunday the 2nd of May, we received a distress message from a boat carrying 95 travellers that had departed from Zuwarah. They had no more fuel and waves were high. After receiving their GPS position at 06:10 CEST our shift team alerted the coastguards. While several merchant vessels, including Vos Aphrodite, were in the area they did not assist the people in distress. In the evening, sadly, we learned that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard and brought back to Libya.

Twitter Thread:
02.05.2021
06:30 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388712441639575554
07:45 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388731434475589632
12:01 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388795882296987656
13:32 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388818616016121857
14:51 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388838519397916678
15:23 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388846567755591682
18:01 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1388886349936304129

03.05.2021
14:09 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1389190266284879878
14:09 - https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1389190268428107777
Last update: 11:37 Dec 05, 2021
Credibility: UP DOWN 0
Layers »
  • 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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