Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 3rd February 2022Case name: 2022_02_03-ATL025
Situation: 52 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, returned to Morocco by themselves.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary: On Thursday the 3rd of February 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 52 travellers, 26 men, 21 women and five children, in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left from around Boujdour the previous evening on a rubber boat, heading towards Fuerteventura. We managed to reach the travellers who told us that they were adrift as they had run out of fuel and that water was entering their boat. We managed to get their GPS position and alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo to the distress case, relaying all information we had. However, they told us that the rescue operation would be coordinated by the Moroccan rescue authorities. We stayed in contact with the boat and forwarded their updated GPS position to the relevant rescue authorities when possible. We could also follow how the situation onboard deteriorated and the travellers became increasingly desperate. Later, we learned that the travellers had managed to return to Morocco by themselves.
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