Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 3rd July 2024
Case name: 2024_07_03-ATL011
Situation: 63 travellers in distress in the Atlantic, their fate remains unknown although the case possibly matched with a shipwreck where only 9 survivors were recovered.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean

Summary of the case: On Wednesday the 3rd of July 2024 the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 63 travellers, including two children and several women, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Nouakchott on the 24th of June, heading towards Tenerife, and since then the relative had had no contact to the boat. We were also not able to reach the travellers or obtain more information, but alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, relaying all the details we had. We were not able to match this boat with any rescues or interceptions we could find information about, and neither Salvamento nor the Guardia Civil had any information about their whereabouts. We contacted the Mauritanian and Senegalese authorities who informed us about a shipwreck occurring on the 1st of July. The Mauritanian coastguard told us that they went to the scene and recovered 47 bodies and rescued nine survivors and were unsure how many more travellers were missing. The relative of the person who alerted us to this case was not found by the authorities, neither dead or alive. As we had no further information about any other travellers onboard, we were not able to verify with certainty whether the boat we were alerted to was the one that shipwrecked. The relative we were in contact with is therefore still left in uncertainty about the fate of their brother. All our thoughts and solidarity is with all the relatives of those dead or still missing at sea.

Tweets about the case: https://x.com/alarm_phone/status/1808480858388435429?t=wk1ltB1VkIW6_ZBUrj4qMg&s=19
https://x.com/alarm_phone/status/1808763509045342358