Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th of June 2017Case name: 2017_06_17-WM140
Situation: 11 travellers had to return to Morocco
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Saturday the 17th of June 2017, at 1.16 am, the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone was alerted to a boat in the Western Mediterranean by a contact person. 11 travellers had left to Spain from Morocco, close to Tangier, at 8pm local time. We tried to reach out to the travellers but they did not answer the phone. At 2.47am the contact person asked us to call the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) to ask for help. He also had no news from his contacts on the boat and he told us that the boat was without an engine.
At 2.53am we called SM about the case. At 7:05am we called them again. However, SM like us had not succeeded to reach the travellers. They told us that the Moroccan Marine had also been looking for the boat in question, but had not found them so far. At 9am, an Alarmphone member from Morocco informed us that the travellers had returned to Morocco paddling, as water had started to enter the boat. There was a hole in it. Our Alarmphone member had spoken to the travellers in person.
We informed SM that the travellers had returned to Morocco.
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