Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 12th May 2022Case name: 2022_05_12-ATL051
Situation: 45 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, intercepted by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 12th of May 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 45 travellers, including two pregnant women and eight children. The travellers had left from around Boujdour in the early hours of the morning on a green wooden boat. The relative informed us that the travellers’ engine was no longer working. We were not able to establish direct contact to the boat but relayed all the information we had to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. Only in the late evening did the relative manage to speak to the travellers again. The relative informed us that they were close to the Moroccan coast, that water was entering their boat and that they were drifting. We called the Moroccan rescue authorities to relay this information. Soon after they told us that the Moroccan navy was carrying out the rescue operation of the boat.
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