Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 29th of May 2018Case name: 2018_05_29-WM240
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 Tuesday the 29th of May 2018, at 5.50am, we received a distress case via a contact person in Morocco. He informed us about a boat carrying 11 people that had left from Cap Spartel. We could not establish contact to them and informed the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) at 6.20am. They said that they would alert the Moroccan navy. At 9.10am, SM confirmed that they had rescued a boat with 10 people on board. Trying to verify whether this was the boat in question, we spoke to the Moroccan Navy at 12.20pm and they told us about two boats they had rescued during the night, one carrying 11 people, with one going missing, and one carrying 5 people, of which 1 had died and another person gone missing. At around 5pm in the afternoon, our contact person confirmed that they had been rescued to Spain and were all safe. They were 10 people in total, as one person decided in the night to not board the boat.
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