20/09: 1 boat rescued, 1 boat no info

21.09.2018 / 08:48 / Western Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 20th of September 2018
Case name: 2018_09_20-WM335
Situation: 1 boat rescued, 1 boat no info
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case: On September 20th, the Alarm Phone was alerted to two cases. In the first case, two boats were rescued to Spain, while there is no final information about the second boat.

In the first case, the Alarm Phone was alerted to a case of two boats, one with 53 people (including 12 women and 5 children) and one with 53 people (including 6 women and 1 child). The shift team first received news at 3.43pm CEST. The boats were unreachable. The shift team called Salvamento Maritimo, who were aware of the situation. At 6.05pm CEST, Salvamento Maritimo reported the rescue of both boats.

In the second case, the Alarm Phone received news at 7.26pm CEST of a boat with 5 people that needed help. The boat included 1 pregnant woman. At 7.54pm, the boat requested that the shift team contact Salvamento Maritimo for a rescue operation. The shift team maintained contact with the boat and Salvamento Maritimo for several hours, but were unable to determine the boat’s location and then lose touch with the boat. At 8.04am the next day, the shift team regained contact with the boat, but could not determine the position, and quickly lost contact again. The shift team contacted Salvamento Maritimo to see if they had any answers. At 9.19am, the boat called again, and the shift team tried to maintain contact for several hours, with only intermittent success. It was impossible to confirm what happened to the boat; the only information was that at 8.00pm, Salvamento Maritimo explained that several boats had been rescued by both Salvamento and Marine Royale.
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  • Border police patrols
     
    While the exact location of patrols is of course constantly changing, this line indicates the approximate boundary routinely patrolled by border guards’ naval assets. In the open sea, it usually correspond to the outer extent of the contiguous zone, the area in which “State may exercise the control necessary to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws” (UNCLOS, art. 33). Data source: interviews with border police officials.
  • Coastal radars
     
    Approximate radar beam range covered by coastal radars operating in the frame of national marine traffic monitoring systems. The actual beam depends from several different parameters (including the type of object to be detected). Data source: Finmeccanica.
  • Exclusive Economic Zone
     
    Maritime area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which the coastal state exercises sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters. Its breadth is 200 nautical miles from the straight baselines from which the territorial sea is measured (UNCLOS, Arts. 55, 56 and 57). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans
  • Frontex operations
     
    Frontex has, in the past few years, carried out several sea operations at the maritime borders of the EU. The blue shapes indicate the approximate extend of these operations. Data source: Migreurop Altas.
  • Mobile phone coverage
     
    Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network coverage. Data source: Collins Mobile Coverage.
  • Oil and gas platforms
     
    Oil and gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Data source:
  • Search and Rescue Zone
     
    An area of defined dimensions within which a given state is has the responsibility to co-ordinate Search and Rescue operations, i.e. the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. Data source: IMO availability of search and rescue (SAR) services - SAR.8/Circ.3, 17 June 2011.
  • Territorial Waters
     
    A belt of sea (usually extending up to 12 nautical miles) upon which the sovereignty of a coastal State extends (UNCLOS, Art. 2). Data source: Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Atlas of the European Seas and Oceans