Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 31st of May 2018Case name: 2018_05_31-WM244
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 Thursday, the 31st of May 2018, at 7.19am, our Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a distress case by a contact person in Morocco. There were 5 people on a boat, trying to row to Spain from Cap Spartel. We reached them at 7.38am and they told us that they were trying to send their GPS position to us. We received their GPS position and passed it on to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) at 8.08am. The boat-people confirmed shortly after that they could see the vessel of SM. SM told us at 8.30am that they were rescuing other people close to the boat in question. At 8.41am, our initial contact person confirmed that the boat-people had been rescued.
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