Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 2021Case name: 2021_06_16-WM631
Situation: 52 people in distress between Laayoune and Fuerteventura, reached the Canaries safely
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of Case
In the late afternoon of June 16th Alarmphone was alerted to a rubber boat in distress carrying two children, eleven women and 39 men on its way from Laayoune to Fuerteventura by a relative. They provided several phone numbers, but we were unable to establish contact to the people in distress. At 18.06 CEST we informed the Spanish Search and Rescue organization Salvamento Marítimo (SM) Las Palmas. The operator appears to have knowledge of this boat already but did not explicitly confirm a SAR had been launched. At 18.53 CEST the relative who had alerted us to the distress situation informed us the people had reached the Canaries safely.
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