Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 04th of May 2018Case name: 2018_05_04-WM223
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to emergency situation in the Western Med
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Friday the 4th of May 2018, the Alarm Phone shift team was contacted at 1.04am from a person in Morocco, but the connection was bad and only few information could be gathered. At 1.40am, this contact person told us that the boat had started several hours earlier from Tangier/Morocco. There were 12 travellers on the boat. We tried to reach the people on the boat directly several times but were unable to connect to them. We spoke to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) at 2.55am. They had received information about the case but no GPS position of the boat. We informed them that we would try to localise the boat. At 3.30am we received a GPS position directly from the boat and passed it immediately on to SM. We did the same when we received an updated GPS position at 4.06am. At 4.35am we once again passed updated coordinates to SM and they told us that they were only about 10 minutes away from the location. At 4.55am, the people on the boat confirmed that they had been rescued by Salvamento Maritimo and were being brought to Tarifa/Spain.
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