Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 1st July 2024Case name: 2024_07_01-CM194
Situation: autonomous arrival of 20 travellers on Lampedusa
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Monday the 1st of July 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 20 travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Tagiura, Libya, on a white fiberglass boat. Unfortunately the Alarm Phone shift team did not reach the travellers but received a position from the relative, as well as the information that the people on the boat were afraid to hit rocks as they were very close to Lampedusa. We immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned that the travellers had reached Lampedusa autonomously.
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