Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 3rd of July 2018Case name: 2018_07_03-WM276
Situation: 2 boats in distress returned to Morocco by own forces, one dead person
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Cases: On Tuesday, 3rd of July, Alarm Phone was in contact with two boats in distress from Morocco towards Spain. Both returned to Morocco by own forces. In one case, a young man died afterwards in the hospital.
At 8:03am CEST we received a call from a boat in distress that had left from Cap Spartel towards Spain at 1am local time. The group consisted of 5 men and 2 women. We couldn‘t find out their GPS position. We called the Spanish rescue authority Salvamento Marítimo at 9:49am that informed us that the Moroccan Marine Royale would already perform the rescue operation. At 10:05am we called the group again. They were still on the water and no rescue boat was nearby. At 10:50am we called Salvamento Marítimo again and informed them that no rescue boat had arrived. Afterwards we couldn’t reach the boat anymore. At 12:13am we called Salvamento Marítimo for news. The authority informed us again that a rescue operation by Marine Royale would be ongoing. As we couldn’t confirm the information with the travellers directly, we called Salvamento during the next hours several times, but never received a final rescue confirmation. At 6:23pm we called to MRCC Rabat, that couldn’t confirm the rescue neither. At 7:20pm a local contact person informed us that the travellers had returned to Moroccan shore themselves.
At 3:14pm CEST we were contacted about a boat in distress that had left from Cap Spartel towards Tarifa/ Spain at 3am local time, 14 travellers on board. We couldn’t establish a connection to the boat until 4:51pm, when the travellers informed us that they were still at sea but trying to return to Morocco, as some of them were not in the physical condition to continue. In the following hours, we tried to find out the GPS position of the boat, but we couldn’t reach the travellers again. At 10:18pm a contact person informed us that they had returned to Morocco and some of them were hospitalized. The following day, we were informed that one 19-years old had passed away in the hospital.
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