Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 18th December 2021Case name: 2021_12_18-WM811
Situation: 53 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, intercepted by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea.
Summary: On Saturday the 18th of December 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 53 travellers, including 11 women and six children, in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left from Laayoune, heading towards the Canary Islands. Water was entering the boat, the waves were high and the travellers were panicking. We managed to get the GPS position of the boat and relayed all information we had to the Moroccan rescue authorities as well as the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. At 13.28 CET the travellers told us that they could see a vessel approaching them. Half an hour later, they told us that they had been picked up by the Moroccan navy. This was soon after confirmed by the Moroccan rescue authorities.
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