After being denied a Port of Safety for 7 days, the 43 people rescued by the Sea-Watch 3 are still stuck on board the ship. Sea-Watch calls on European leaders to make disembarkation happen immediately. This unbearable situation cannot continue on World Refugee Day. The solution is there, more than 60 cities have declared their…
Last night at 8:30 PM local time, the remaining 47 of 65 rescued people onboard the Sea-Watch 3 were disembarked safely, and in close cooperation with the Italian Coast Guard, on the island of Lampedusa. This fourth disembarkation of rescued people by a civil rescue ship in Italy this year proves once more that the…
The civil rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 has just entered Italian territorial waters with 47 rescued persons on board as an emergency measure. Last night, the Italian Coast Guard had ordered and conducted the disembarkation of 18 women, children, and closely related men while the others, among them eight unaccompanied minors, a pregnant woman and a…
Upon arrival in the search and rescue (SAR) zone, the civil rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 rescued 65 people from a rubber boat in distress, about 30 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. The boat had been spotted before by the civilian reconnaissance aircraft Colibri. Among the 65 rescued people – many of which show signs…
We have learned that Sea-Eye’s rescue vessel, the ‘Alan Kurdi’, has finally been allowed to disembark the people who were rescued on April 3 when in distress on the Mediterranean Sea. These 64 people (of whom two were evacuated already due to medical emergencies) are allowed to reach land in Valletta/Malta after suffering through ten…
