Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 21st December 2021Case name: 2021_12_21-CM653
Situation: 62 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued by NGO vessel Geo Barents.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 21st of December 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was called by a boat in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Onboard were 62 travellers, including a child and seven women of which one was pregnant. The travellers had left from Zawiya on a rubber boat the same morning, and were panicking as the boat had started losing air. We managed to get the GPS position of the travellers and immediately forwarded all information we had to the relevant rescue authorities. After this, we were no longer able to reach the travellers, but later in the day we found out that they had been rescued by the NGO rescue vessel Geo Barents.
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