Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations –1st June 2021Case name: 2021_06_01-WM618
Situation:36 travellers from Laayoune rescued to Las Palmas.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic
Summary of the Case: In the afternoon of Tuesday the 1st of June the Alarm Phone was alerted to a boat in distress carrying 36 travellers, including 11 women and 2 children (a two year old child and a six months old baby). The boat had departed earlier that day
from Laayoune. At 18:00h CEST we alerted the Spanish Search and Rescue Organization Salvamento Maritimo (SM). During the night, at
01:39h we reached the travellers and received a GPS position, which we immediately passed on to SM in Las Palmas. At 02:30h SM in Las
Palmas confirmed that the boat had been rescued and brought to
Fuerteventura.
Last update: 11:50 Dec 19, 2021
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