Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 21st August 2022Case name: 2022_08_21-ATL091
Situation: 57 travellers in distress in the Atlantic, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Fuerteventura
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Sunday the 21st of August 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 57 travellers, including 15 women and four children, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from south of Laayoune the previous evening on a black rubber boat. The weather in the area was bad and forecast to become worse. The travellers had no satellite phone onboard their vessel, and it was therefore not possible to reach them. We relayed all the information we had to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. After days, we learned from the Spanish Guardia Civil and the relative that the travellers had been rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Fuerteventura.
Last update: 12:25 Aug 07, 2023
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