Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th January 2023Case name: 2024_01_05-ATL003
Situation: 11 travellers in distress in the Atlantic returned by themselves.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 5th of January 2023, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 11 travellers, 10 men and one woman, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left in the early hours of the morning from Boujdour on a black rubber boat. We were not able to establish direct contact to the boat, but immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo to the distress situation, relaying all the information we had. The following day, we received the position of the travellers from the relative and were told that the travellers had no more fuel left. We relayed this information to Salvamento Maritimo as well as to the Moroccan rescue authorities. Later, we were informed by the Moroccan authorities that the travellers had made it back to shore by themselves. This was soon after confirmed by the relative.
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