Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 7th of February 2022 Case name: 2022_02_07-AEG857
Situation: 15 people in distress near Bodrum, rescued by Turkish coastguard to Turkey
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Eastern Med
Summary of the Case:
In the early morning of the 7th of February 2022, Alarm Phone received a call by a concerned relative, alerting us to a group of 1 child and 14 men is distress who had departed from Bodrum in a small boat. At the time of the alert, the caller related that the group of 15 were in urgent need of help, their engine was broken and they were in a bad situation. We managed to establish direct contact to the boat at 04:43 CET and they told us that they needed help, their engine wasn’t working and to call the coastguard. So we immediately alerted the authorities at 04:50 CET, passed on the information and co-ordinates. At 05:32 CET we got news from the Turkish Coastguard that the boat was found and no-one was missing. They brought the boat back to Bodrum, Turkey.
Last update: 19:15 May 16, 2022
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