Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 20th July 2024Case name: 2024_07_20-WM019
Situation: 17 travellers in distress in the Western Med, rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Palma de Mallorca.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 20th of July 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 17 travellers, many of them minors, in distress in the Western Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Algiers in the early hours of the morning on a fishing vessel. We were not able to establish direct contact to the travellers 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. The following day we learned that the travellers had been rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and brought to Palma de Mallorca.
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