Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – September 25th 2021Case name: 2021_09_25-WM725
Situation: 17 women, six babies, 21 men rescued from sea by Salvamento Marítimo, taken to La Graciosa, Canary Islands
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic
Summary of Case: In the early morning of September 25th Alarm Phone was called by a relative who informed us about a group of 17 women, six babies and 21 men in distress who had departed North of Guelmim in the direction of the Canary Islands. We were unable to establish direct contact to the people in distress and forwarded the distress call to authorities at 04.30 CEST. At 18.25 CEST the same day the Spanish Search and Rescue organisation Salvamento Marítimo (SM) Las Palmas informed us their operators had found a boat similar to the description provided by the relative, which was in the process of being rescued from sea. Throughout the night we tried to establish direct contact to the people in distress but remained unsuccesfull. At 02.47 the relative called again providing a GPS position which we passed to authorities. At 19.24 CEST September 16th the relative called again informing us the boat and everyone in it had been found by SM and brought to La Graciosa, Canary Islands.
Last update: 20:03 May 01, 2022
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