Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 23rd December 2021Case name: 2021_12_23-CM661
Situation: 13 travellers in stranded on an island, rescued and brought to Sardinia.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 23rd of December 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of around 13 men, three of them minors, in distress on a small island close to Sardinia. The travellers had left from Algeria and were now stranded on the island. We managed to reach the travellers who told is that they were around 20 km from Sardinia, but that the weather was getting worse and that three people were sick. Due to bad connection, we were not able to obtain the exact GPS position of the boat. We alerted the Italian coastguard to the distress of the travellers, forwarding all the information we had. The Sardinian coastguard later told us that they had rescued the boat, which was confirmed by the relative who had been in contact with the travellers after they arrived to Italy.
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