Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 13th August 2022Case name: 2022_08_13-ATL088
Situation: 41 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Ocean, rescued to the Canary Islands.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 13th of August 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 41 travellers, including 12 women and a child, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Tarfaya the same morning at 04.00 and were heading towards Fuerteventura on a grey rubber boat. We were not able to reach the travellers as there was no satellite phone onboard and their cell phones were out of reception. However, we alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, relaying all the information we had. Later in the morning the Spanish Guardia Civil confirmed that a boat matching the description we had given had been rescued.
Last update: 12:15 Aug 07, 2023
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