Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th April 2023Case name: 2022_04_17 ATL020
Situation: 28 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Ocean, brought back by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Monday th 17th of April 2023, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 28 travellers, including five women of which two pregnant, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Boujdour on a grey rubber boat. We managed to reach the travellers who told us that the wind was strong and that water was entering their boat. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo as well as the Moroccan search and rescue authorities. The following afternoon we learned that the travellers had been picked up by the Moroccan navy and brought back.
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