84 migrants were rescued off the coast of Pas-de-Calais after trying to cross the Channel. Their boat ran aground on a sandbar.
New rescue operation this Monday, January 20. A migrant boat was reported to the Gris-Nez (Cross) regional operational surveillance and rescue center in the morning, off the coast of Pas-de-Calais in the Walde lighthouse sector, indicates the maritime prefecture in a press release.
A witness on land warned of the departure of the boat, leading the Cross Gris-Nez to engage DFP1 Jacques Oudart Fourmentin, a French customs patrolman. Once in the area, the patrol boat noticed that the boat had run aground on a sandbank.
Additional resources were mobilized because shipwreck victims were also isolated by the tide. 22 people were finally rescued and recovered by the nautical means of the Codis 62. They were dropped off at the port of Calais.
-The 62 other passengers on board the boat were also rescued and dropped off in Boulogne-sur-Mer. A total of 84 people were rescued this Monday.
