Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 10th October 2022Case name: 2022_10_10-ATL122
Situation: 21 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Ocean, 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 Monday the 10th of October 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 21 travellers, all men, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from around Boujdour the previous morning at 04.00 CEST on a grey rubber boat. We reached the travellers, but due to poor connection we were not able to communicate or get their GPS position. Online we could see, that the weather in the area was very bad. We immediately relayed all the information we had to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo who told us that they would not launch a search and rescue operation without having the exact GPS position of the travellers. Later in the morning, Salvamento Maritimo told us that they had rescued the travellers.
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