Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 16th September 2021Case name: 2021_09_16-CM565
Situation: More than 100 travellers in distress in the Central Med rescued and brought to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Wednesday the 16th of September 2021 the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a boat in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers told us that they were more than 100 people, including five women and four children, onboard a blue wooden boat with two decks and that water was entering their boat. None of the travellers were carrying life vests. They also gave us their GPS position. We immediately forwarded all the information to the relevant rescue authorities via email. When trying to relay the information via phone as well, the Italian coastguard hung up on us whilst the Maltese coastguard took the information. We stayed in contact with the travellers throughout the day who told us that people were getting sick as the journey went on.
In the evening, after we had lost contact to the travellers, we learned that they had been rescued and brought to Lampedusa.
Last update: 13:19 Mar 29, 2022
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