Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 17th February 2024Case name: 2024_02_17-CM044
Situation: 22 travellers in distress in the Central Med, 19 rescued by NGO vessel Geo Barents from oil platform, three travellers remain missing.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 17th of February 2024 just before midnight, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of 19 travellers, including three women and two children, stuck at an oil platform in the Central Mediterranean Sea. They had left from Sabratha the previous evening. According to the travellers, three people had stayed behind on the boat and were lost at the sea. They had no food and drinking water with them. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. We stayed in contact with the travellers throughout the night and the following day. In the evening, we learned that the travellers were rescued by the search and rescue NGO vessel Geo Barents. We then explicitly alerted the authorities to the fact that three people remained missing on the drifting boat with no means of communication. We do not know what happened to these three travellers.
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