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Celebrating Wild Caraway: Taste of Nova Scotia's Restaurant of the Year | SaltWireLONDON - Unsuccessful attempts to rescue migrants from a sinking boat in the Channel in November 2021 were hampered by poor visibility and confusion over locating the right vessel, Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch said on Thursday.
The MAIB said the"wholly unsuitable and ill-equipped" inflatable boat began taking on water in the early hours of Nov. 24 and some of the migrants made distress calls on their mobile phones to both French and British authorities. "Coastguard operators were heavily reliant on the limited information passed to them by French authorities and calls from the occupants of the boats themselves to try to identify the number of boats attempting the crossing, their location and their level of distress."Three other migrant boats were found in UK waters while searching for the sinking boat, MAIB said, all with similar numbers of people on board to those reported to be on the stricken craft, which proved a distraction.
The MAIB said it had recommended British and French authorities work together to improve the transfer of information between their coastguard agencies.
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