Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 21st October 2021Case name: 2021_10_21-CM599
Situation: 27 travellers in distress in the Ionian Sea, rescued and brought to Calabria.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 21st of October 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 27 travellers, including three children, in distress in the Ionian Sea. The travellers had left from Turkey and were heading towards Italy. We managed to reach the travellers who told us that they were adrift and that water was entering their boat. They also told us that the children, one of which was a baby, were in critical health conditions. We managed to get their GPS position, showing that they were close to the Italian coast, and immediately forwarded all information we had to the relevant search and rescue authorities. We stayed in close contact with the boat which began to take in water, and kept the Italian coastguard updated with their GPS position and situation. The following afternoon the Italian coastguard confirmed that they had rescued a boat matching the description we had given and that the travellers disembarked in Calabria.
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