Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 2nd
of November 2020

Case name: 2020_11_02-CM317
Situation: 65 people who had left from Libya were very close to Lampedusa at the
last contact with the Alarm Phone
Status of WTM Investigation: concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case:
On November 2nd, 2020 the Alarm Phone was called by a boat in distress which had departed from Zuwara, Libya. The people on board told us
there was a pregnant women and babies with them and that there was a hole in the boat and water entering. They had no life vests and asked
urgently for rescue. We wrote an email to the Italian and Maltese authorities at 17.55h CET and passed their GPS position. We constantly spoke to the people on board and forwarded their updated
position to the authorities. At 18h CET the people told us they saw a drone flying just above them and that they put on the light of their
phones. Although rescue was demanded several times and the people
were exhausted and afraid of death, their was none. But the
travellers managed to proceed and at our last contact at 01.57h CET
on 3rd November they were about 20nm off the coast of Lampedusa.
Unfortunately it was not possible to get confirmation but we assume
they arrived to Lampedusa.