Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 7th March 2024Case name: 2024_03_07-CM052
Situation: Group of travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued by the Italian coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 7th of March 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers told us that they had been at sea for three days and that they had no more food and drinking water left. 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 and passed on their updated positions to the authorities as often as possible. We could hear that the situation onboard deteriorated as the weather got increasingly worse and as the travellers were running out of fuel. At 09.05 am the following morning, the travellers told us that several people had fallen in the water and that the boat was unstable. Later in the day, we learned that the travellers had been rescued by the Italian coastguard.
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