Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 29th of August 2017Case name: 2017_08_29-AEG300
Situation: Alarm Phone in contact with 35 travellers south of Lesvos; rescued to Greece
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Tuesday the 29th of August 2017 at 4.50am, a contact person forwarded the GPS coordinates and a phone number of a boat in distress to us, which was on its way to the Greek island of Lesvos. At 5am, we were able to speak to the people and learned that their boat was in bad conditions and that water started to enter it. They asked for help, thus afterwards we alerted the Greek coastguard and forwarded all information we had received. The coastguard called us back at 6.30am and confirmed that they had rescued the travellers and that they were safe.
Last update: 07:40 Sep 07, 2017
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