Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 6th March 2023Case name: 2022_03_06 ATL018
Situation: 53 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Ocean, rescued and brought to the Canary Islands.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Monday the 6th of March 2023 shortly before midnight, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 53 travellers, including 13 women and two children, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Akhfenir on a grey rubber boat in the early hours of the morning. According to the relative, they had left in a convoy with another boat. The travellers did not have a satellite phone with them, and we were therefore not able to establish direct contact to the boat, and did not know their exact GPS position. However, we alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned that the travellers had been rescued and brought to the Canary Islands.
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