Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 26th of May 2023Case name: 2023_05_26-WM-036
Situation: 8 travellers in distress in the Strait of Gibraltar, brought back to Morocco by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the case: On Friday the 26th of May 2023, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a group of eight travellers, six men and two women, in distress in the Strait of Gibraltar. The travellers had left from Tangier the previous evening on a rubber boat, heading towards Tarifa. We could hear on the phone that they were panicking, and they told us that their boat was about to sink. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo as well as the Moroccan rescue authorities. Later, we learned from the Moroccan rescue authorities that the Moroccan navy had picked up a group of travellers matching the description we had given and brought them back to Morocco. According to them, all travellers were in good health.
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