Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 12th August 2022Case name: 2022_08_12-ATL086
Situation: 40 travellers in distress in the Atlantic, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to the Canary Islands.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Friday the 12th of August 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 40 travellers, including women and children, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Laayoune the previous morning at 00.30 CEST and had thus been at sea for more than 40 hours. They were travelling on a wooden fisher boat. We were not able to reach the travellers, but alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo to the distress case. The following morning, the relative informed us that the travellers had been rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to the Canary Islands.
Last update: 12:13 Aug 07, 2023
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