Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of March 2018Case name: 2018_03_05-AEG344
Situation: Boat in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Monday the 5th of March 2018, at 6.38am, a contact person informed our Alarm Phone shift team about a boat in distress, carrying 45 people. We received a GPS position as well as the phone number of one of the travellers. They were on their way to Lesvos, but their engine had stopped working. We spoke to the boat-people at 6.44am – they were ok but could not re-start the engine. They said that there were 10 children among them and we later found out that there were also 6 women, among them one pregnant woman. At 6.54am, they sent a new position, showing them still in Turkish waters. We explained that to them a few minutes later. At 7.23am, a contact person informed us that the Turkish coastguards had found the boat, and at 7.36am he told us that they had been rescued by the Turkish coastguards, to be returned to Turkey.
Last update: 09:43 Mar 18, 2018
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