Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th July 2022Case name: 2022_07_17-ATL072
Situation: 51 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Lanzarote.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Sunday the 17th of July 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 51 travellers, including six women and a child, in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left from Tan Tan at midnight two days earlier, heading towards the Canary Islands. We managed to reach the travellers who were exhausted, and got their GPS position. We alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo to the distress of the travellers, relaying all the information we had. The travellers told us that their situation was getting increasingly dangerous as the weather was getting worse and water was entering their boat. We managed to get a new GPS position from them, and immediately forwarded this to the rescue authorities. After this, we lost contact to the boat. We later learned that the travellers had been rescue by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Lanzarote.
Last update: 11:33 Aug 07, 2023
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