Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 2nd of June 2018Case name: 2018_06_02-WM247
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 Saturday, the 2nd of June 2018, 17.10h, our Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a distress case by a contact person in Morocco. There were 9 people (8 men, 1 woman) on a boat, trying to reach Spain. They had already left the evening before. We were not able to reach them and spoke to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM) at 18.04h – they could not confirm whether this boat had been among the many boats they had rescued over the last two days. The Moroccan MRCC Rabat said that they had not rescued a boat with 9 people on board. We were unable to receive further information until the next day, when our contact person stated that the boat had capsized. Seven people had died in the incident, one had gone missing, leaving only a sole survivor.
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