Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd November 2021Case name: 2021_11_22-WM786
Situation: 65 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Fuerteventura.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic
Summary: On Monday the 22nd of November 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a boat in distress in the Atlantic Sea. Onboard were 65 travellers, including 10 women, and many children, who had left the evening before at 22.00 CET from Laayoune on a blue plastic boat. We managed to reach the satellite phone of the travellers, and they gave us their GPS position, and told us that the situation was difficult because of the many children onboard. At 14.30 CET we alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo to the distress of the travellers. After this, we were no longer able to reach the travellers. In the evening, however, we learned from the relative that the travellers had been rescued and brought to Fuerteventura.
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