Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 11th of June 2021Case name: 2021_06_11-CM463
Situation: 54 people, among them one pregnant women, started from Libya and were rescued by NGO vessel Geo Barents
Status of WTM Investigation: concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On the 11th of June 2021 at 20:50 CEST the Alarm Phone received a distress call from a satellite phone. The caller is onboard a boat with 54 people with one pregnant women. Accordingly, they were at sea for two days and have barely food and water left. The Alarm Phone received a GPS position and the information that the boat is not moving. All details were sent by email to the Tunisian, Italian and Maltese coast guards, as well as the so-called Libyan coast guard and the NGOs Sea-Watch and Pilotes Volontaires and the NGO vessel Geo Barents at 21:09 CEST. In the night the Alarm Phone received another GPS position which was immediately relayed to the competent actors. On 12th of June at 05:56 CEST the NGO Geo Barents informed that they have visual of a boat in really bad conditions and that people were in the water. At 07:07 CEST Geo Barents confirmed the rescue of the 54 people.
Last update: 18:15 Dec 23, 2021
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