The Airborne Annual Report 2024 provides an overview of the findings of Sea-Watch’s airborne monitoring of human rights violations in the central Mediterranean Sea during 2024. Together with the Swiss organization Humanitarian Pilots Initiative (HPI), Sea-Watch operates the two monitoring aircraft Seabird 1 and Seabird 2. Starting from Lampedusa, the aircraft patrol the central Mediterranean…
Over the weekend, we witnessed not only an illegal and violent pullback by the so-called Libyan coastguard, but once again the inaction of European states. Not even a woman giving birth was enough to prompt the Italian authorities to rescue people stranded on an oil platform. Last Saturday, Alarm Phone alerted European authorities: a group…
This factsheet provides a summary of political developments and operational updates regarding our ships and aircraft from January to March 2025. Download Full Report 1. Political developments Sea Rescue organisations joined the criminal trial regarding the shipwreck in Crotone, Italy On February 26, 2023, at least 94 people died off the coast of Crotone, Italy,…
This factsheet provides a summary of political developments and operational updates regarding our ships and aircraft. 1. Political developments 2. Updates on our aerial operations with Seabird 1 and Seabird 2 Overview of boats in distress spotted Details and outcomes of selected boats in distress 3. Updates on our operations at sea with the Sea-Watch…
The civil rescue organization Sea-Watch introduces a new monitoring aircraft in the central Mediterranean. The Seabird 3, a Diamond DA42 aircraft, will be operated in partnership with the Humanitarian Pilots Initiative and United4Rescue. This new alliance aircraft will allow for continued documentation of human rights violations and help assist those in distress in the central Mediterranean.…
