Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 28th of June 2017Case name: 2017_06_28-AEG290
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to 1 emergency situation in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Wednesday the 28th of June 2017, our Alarm Phone shift team was alerted at 00:35am by a contact person to a boat carrying about 48 people, including 11 children, who were trying to reach Samos Island. According to their GPS coordinates, they had already entered Greek territory. When we were unable to reach the travellers directly, we contacted the Greek coastguards at 1.38am. They stated that they had learned about a distressed boat in that area and wanted to see whether this was the same boat. Shortly after we found out that the engine of the boat had stopped. At 2.33am, the Greek authorities confirmed that they had just rescued a group of boat-people near the position that we had passed on to them. They stated that they thought it to be the boat in question.
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