Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – December 5th 2021Case name: 2021_12_05-WM799
Situation: Two children, ca.18 women, ca. 37 men in distress West of Laayoune, rescued to Fuerteventura
WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic
Summary of Case In the late morning of December 5th Alarm Phone was alerted by a relative to a group of two children, ca. 18 women and ca. 37 men in distress. They had left South of Laayoune for the Canary Islands. At the time of the distress call their boat had started to take water and weather conditions were forcasted to worsen throughout the evening. We alerted authorities at 17.45 CET. At 23.40 CET the Spanish Search and Rescue organisation Salvamento Marítimo (SM) Las Plamas confirmed they had found the boat and launched a rescue mission. At 00.36 CET SM Las Palmas informed us the rescue of all 57 people had been completed and the group would be brought to Fuerteventura.
Credibility: |
|
|
0 |
|