28/09: 25 travellers started from Tamsaman beach and were intercepted by Moroccan Navy

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  In Distress   Interception

29.09.2021 / 16:50 / Western Mediterranean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 28th September 2021

Case name: 2021_09_28-WM735

Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to 25 travellers, all men, in distress who started from Tamsaman beach and were intercepted by Moroccan Navy and brought to Nador.

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean

Summary: On Tuesday the 28th of September 2021 at 15:55 CEST, the Alarm Phone shift team was informed about a boat with 25 travellers, all men who left the day before in the afternoon from Tamsaman beach in a grey zodiac. The shift team failed in contacting the people via the provided telephone numbers and informed Salvamento Marítimo (SM) in Almería at 17:14 CEST via phone and later via email. In the early morning of 29th September Alarm Phone learned that the travellers were intercepted by Moroccan Navy after 24 hours at sea.
Last update: 21:16 May 01, 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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