Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 7th July 2024Case name: 2024_07_07-CM202
Situation: 50 travellers in distress in the Central Med, assisted by the NGO vessel Nadir and then rescued by Sea Eye 4.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Sunday the 7th of July 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of 50 travellers, including six children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from between Zuwara and Sabratha, Libya, the same morning on a grey wooden boat. The wind in the area was strong and we could hear on the phone that they were panicking. 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 authorities as often as possible. Later, we learned that the travellers had first been assisted by the NGO vessel Nadir and then rescued by the NGO vessel Sea Eye 4.
Tweets about the case:
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