Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 25th March 2023Case name: 2022_03_25WM010
Situation: 39 travellers in distress in the Alboran Sea, brought back to Morocco by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On the 25th of March 2023, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 39 travellers, including seven women and three children, in distress in the Alboran Sea. The travellers had left from around Nador in the early hours of the same morning. We managed to reach the travellers who told us that their engine was broken and that water was entering their boat. In addition, several of the travellers were sick. We also managed to get their GPS position. We alerted the Moroccan search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. In our next call to the travellers, they told us that two people had fallen overboard, and that they could see a fishing vessel in the vicinity. We stayed in contact with the travellers and relayed their updated GPS positions to the authorities as often as possible. Later in the evening, the travellers told us that they had been picked up by the Moroccan navy and returned to Morocco. They informed us that they were all safe.
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