Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of April 2018Case name: 2018_04_05-AEG368
Situation: Boat in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Thursday the 5th of April 2018, at 3.51am, our Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a contact person to a boat in distress north of Samos Island. There were 36 people on the boat and he had lost contact with them. We received a GPS position as well as a phone number of the travellers. We tried to reach the boat repeatedly, without success. Only at 11.10am were we able to receive the information from the Greek coastguards that the boat had been located by the Turkish coastguards and returned to Turkey. However, about an hour later, our contact person confirmed that he had heard from the boat-people and that they had in fact landed safely on Samos Island.
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