Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 12th February 2022Case name: 2022_02_12-CM026
Situation: 13 travellers in distress in the Central Med, arrived to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 12th of February 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a boat in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Onboard were 13 travellers, including four women and two children. We managed to get their GPS position, and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities to the distress situation, relaying all the information we had. In the evening, we learned that a boat matching the description we had gotten from the travellers had arrived to Lampedusa.
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