Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th May 2022Case name: 2022_05_17-WM-ATL053
Situation: 52 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Gran Canaria
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 17th of May 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 52 travellers, including seven women and five children, in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left the previous day at around 02.00 CEST from Boujdour on a grey wooden boat. The relative had lost contact to the boat and we were also not able to establish a direct connection. However, we relayed all the information we had to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo who confirmed that they were sending an aircraft to search for the travellers and instructing a merchant vessel to proceed towards the position of the boat in distress they received directly from the people on the boat. In the early afternoon, Salvamento Maritimo informed us that they had localised the boat and that a rescue vessel had been sent to carry out the rescue operation. At 21.20 CEST Salvamento Maritimo confirmed to us on the phone that the rescue operation was completed and that the travellers would be brought to Gran Canaria.
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