05/01: 17 travelers leave from Oran, rescued to Almería.

06.01.2022 / 13:46 / Western Mediterranean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th January 2022

Case name: 2022_01_05-WM006

Situation: 17 travelers (three women, four children (4, 6, 8, 12 years old), and ten men) leave from Oran, rescue to Almería confirmed by Red Cross.

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the case: In the morning of the 5th January 2022, the Alarm Phone was alerted by a woman who was searching for information about her 19 year old brother on a missing boat. Reportedly, there were 17 travelers on the boat, among them three women, four children (4, 6, 8, 12 years old), and ten men. According to the relative, they had left from Oran at 18h00 CET on the 3rd January. Our shift team received a phone number on board, but could not reach the travellers. There was no known GPS location of them. Our shift team informed the Spanish Search and Rescue organization Salvamento Marítimo at 09h41 CET. On the 6th January, the relative informed us that she had received the information that the travellers were rescued and brought to Almería. She had been in contact with a volunteer of the Red Cross Spain. According to them, everyone from the boat was doing well.

Last update: 13:57 Aug 22, 2022

Credibility:

Border police patrols
While the exact location of patrols is of course constantly changing, this line indicates the approximate boundary routinely patrolled by border guards’ naval assets. In the open sea, it usually correspond to the outer extent of the contiguous zone, the area in which “State may exercise the control necessary to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws” (UNCLOS, art. 33). Data source: interviews with border police officials.
Coastal radars
Approximate radar beam range covered by coastal radars operating in the frame of national marine traffic monitoring systems. The actual beam depends from several different parameters (including the type of object to be detected). Data source: Finmeccanica.
Exclusive Economic Zone
Maritime area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which the coastal state exercises sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters. Its breadth is 200 nautical miles from the straight baselines from which the territorial sea is measured (UNCLOS, Arts. 55, 56 and 57). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans
Frontex operations
Frontex has, in the past few years, carried out several sea operations at the maritime borders of the EU. The blue shapes indicate the approximate extend of these operations. Data source: Migreurop Altas.
Mobile phone coverage
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network coverage. Data source: Collins Mobile Coverage.
Oil and gas platforms
Oil and gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Data source:
Search and Rescue Zone
An area of defined dimensions within which a given state is has the responsibility to co-ordinate Search and Rescue operations, i.e. the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. Data source: IMO availability of search and rescue (SAR) services - SAR.8/Circ.3, 17 June 2011.
Territorial Waters
A belt of sea (usually extending up to 12 nautical miles) upon which the sovereignty of a coastal State extends (UNCLOS, Art. 2). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans