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  • Border police patrols
     
    While the exact location of patrols is of course constantly changing, this line indicates the approximate boundary routinely patrolled by border guards’ naval assets. In the open sea, it usually correspond to the outer extent of the contiguous zone, the area in which “State may exercise the control necessary to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws” (UNCLOS, art. 33). Data source: interviews with border police officials.
  • Coastal radars
     
    Approximate radar beam range covered by coastal radars operating in the frame of national marine traffic monitoring systems. The actual beam depends from several different parameters (including the type of object to be detected). Data source: Finmeccanica.
  • Exclusive Economic Zone
     
    Maritime area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which the coastal state exercises sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters. Its breadth is 200 nautical miles from the straight baselines from which the territorial sea is measured (UNCLOS, Arts. 55, 56 and 57). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans
  • Frontex operations
     
    Frontex has, in the past few years, carried out several sea operations at the maritime borders of the EU. The blue shapes indicate the approximate extend of these operations. Data source: Migreurop Altas.
  • Mobile phone coverage
     
    Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network coverage. Data source: Collins Mobile Coverage.
  • Oil and gas platforms
     
    Oil and gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Data source:
  • Search and Rescue Zone
     
    An area of defined dimensions within which a given state is has the responsibility to co-ordinate Search and Rescue operations, i.e. the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. Data source: IMO availability of search and rescue (SAR) services - SAR.8/Circ.3, 17 June 2011.
  • Territorial Waters
     
    A belt of sea (usually extending up to 12 nautical miles) upon which the sovereignty of a coastal State extends (UNCLOS, Art. 2). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans

Kilometers Nautical Miles

200 km
200 mi
Scale = 1 : 14M

24/09: Shipwreck in the Atlantic, only four survivors

25.09.2024 / 17:41 / Atlantic Ocean

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th September 2024
Case name: 2024_09_24-ATL024
Situation: 61 travellers in distress in the Atlantic, only four survived after the boat shipwrecked, the others remain missing.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean

Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 24th of September 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 61 travellers, including 15 women and two children, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Tan Tan in the early morning on the 22nd of September on a rubber boat. We were not able to reach the boat and did not know their GPS position. However, we immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned from a survivor that the boat had shipwrecked. To our knowledge, four travellers survived the shipwreck. Two of them were transferred directly to the hospital in Laayoune. The other travellers remain missing. All our thoughts and solidarity are with the families and friends who are now stuck in limbo with no clarity about their loved ones, as well as with the survivors who had to endure this traumatic experience.
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