Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 03rd July 2021Case name: 2021_07_03-CM494
Situation: 71 travellers from Zawiyya rescued by Ocean Viking.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case:
In the morning of Saturday the 3rd of July we were alerted by a worried relative of one of the travellers to a boat in distress close to Lampedusa. At 09:40h CEST our shift team managed to reach the travellers directly. They were approximately 70 people on board of a white wooden boat which had left from Zawiyya. A few minutes later we received their GPS position in Maltese Search and Rescue zone. We immediately passed on the coordinates to Italian and Maltese authorities, as well as to search and rescue NGOs, via an email sent at 10:18h. At 10:46h we received the information form the NGO Search and Rescue vessel Ocean Viking (OV) that they were heading towards the distress case. At 15:01h OV confirmed that, as the Maltese authorities had not answered their calls and the boat was completely adrift with the engines not working and several people in very weak conditions, they proceded to complete the rescue operation of the 71 travellers.
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