Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 25th of July 2017Case name: 2017_07_25-AEG295
Situation: Boat rescued to Greece
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Cases: On Tuesday, the 25th of July 2017, at 3.20am, a contact person forwarded a GPS position of a boat carrying 54 people, including 20 women and children, to our shift team. We located them and tried to call them, but we could not get through to them. Since they were already in Greek waters, moving toward the south of Lesvos Island, we informed the Greek coastguards at 3.55am who took down the information. We also informed the NGO ERCI, which is located on Lesvos, about the boat in distress. At 5.33am, the Greek coastguards confirmed their rescue and we passed the news on to our contact person. We then informed ERCI and they shortly afterwards also confirmed the boat’s successful rescue to us.
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