Shortly before Sea-Watch’s new flagship sets off on its first mission on 3rd November, Denmark’s biggest newspaper Politiken is awarding the Freedom Prize to Sea-Watch in Copenhagen. The crisis on the Mediterranean has not passed – people are still dying at Europe’s deadliest border. Yet fewer and fewer ships are actively rescuing migrants and refugees.…
Pediatrician Caro on her engagement with Sea-Watch Carolin Möhrke works as a pediatrician in a small town in the east of Germany, most of the time anyway. She purposely took a part time job at the local hospital. When she is not at work here, the 38 year old does volunteer work. Caro has been…
With the larger ship, demands on our voluntary crews are also growing. Our new partner, the ISC Training & Assembly GmbH, offers them the opportunity to prepare themselves for possible risks and scenarios during the next missions on the Sea-Watch 3 in a professional security training tailored to our work. During our first, intensive training…
Sea-Watch will soon commence missions with the Sea-Watch 3. The Sea-Watch 3 is the first boat of the Sea-Watch fleet that is capable of bringing rescued people to a safe harbor itself. In order to avoid the risk of an arbitrary confiscation of our boat, as in the case of the IUVENTA of Jugend Rettet,…
During our Monitoring Mission in the Aegean Sea, the Sea-Watch crew has put special attention on the so-called HotSpots. This article gathers reports about the dramatic situation in the biggest of these camps: Moria, Lesbos. We urge the Greek government to close down the prison-like camps and transfer people to the mainland before winter is…
