04/09: Three people left from Al Hoceima on a jetski and intercepted by Moroccan Royal Navy

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05.09.2021 / 09:15 / Western Mediterranean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 4th of September 2021

Case name: 20210904-WM691

Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to three people, all men, who departed from Al Hoceima on a jetski and were intercepted by Moroccan Royal Navy.

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean

Summary On Saturday the 4th of September 2021 at 14:34 CEST the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 3 travellers, all men, who had left from Al Hoceima with a white and red jetski on that day in the morning. The provided telephone number couldn’t be reached, but the shift team called Salvamento Maritimo in Madrid to make them aware of the travellers. The coast guard officer told that they will go out to search but suppose the travellers are still in search and rescue zone of Morocco. Later that day it turned out that the people were intercepted by Moroccan Royal Navy.
Last update: 12:46 Mar 29, 2022
Credibility: UP DOWN 0
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  • 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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