Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 16th of April 2024Case name: 2024_04_16-ATL003
Situation: Boat carrying 30 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Ocean was rescued and brought to Lanzarote.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the Case: On the night of the 16th of April, a relative alerted the Alarm Phone shift team to a distress case in the Atlantic. The boat with 30 travellers, including one woman and four children, had set off from Tan Tan, Morocco, in the morning of the 15th of April and had run out of fuel. In addition, water was slowly but surely getting into the boat and people were panicking, the relative reported. The shift team alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo and passed on all known information to them. Throughout the night, the shift team managed to reach the travellers, who confirmed the situation described by the relative and gave their GPS location. The shift team kept in touch with the travellers, whose situation continued to deteriorate as part of the boat broke down and more and more water came in, and passed the information on to the authorities. The next afternoon, the shift team learned that this boat, along with others, had been rescued and taken to Lanzarote.
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