Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th February 2022Case name: 2022_02_24-ATL033
Situation: 58 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, intercepted by the Moroccan navy and brought to Boujdour.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 24th of February 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 58 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left from Boujdour in the early hours of the morning and was heading towards Gran Canaria. We managed to reach the travellers and got their GPS position. They also told us that their boat was taking in water, their engine was broken and that several women onboard were sick. We immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organization Salvamento Maritimo to the distress of the travellers. We stayed in contact with the boat and forwarded their updated GPS positions to the rescue authorities regularly. From the travellers we learned that they could see two merchant vessels in the vicinity, but that these did not provide assistance despite the travellers’ calls for help. On the phone we could hear how the situation onboard deteriorated and the panic increased among the travellers. The following morning we learned that the travellers had been intercepted by the Moroccan navy and disembarked in Boujdour. According to the Moroccan rescue authorities all travellers were in good health.
Tweets about the case: https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1496902165390110732
Last update: 09:31 Sep 28, 2022
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