Die Schiffsunglücke und das Verschwinden von Booten mit Menschen auf der Flucht Richtung Italien, nahe der tunesischen Küste, häufen sich seit zwei Jahren. Nach Angaben des FTDES (Tunesisches Forum für wirtschaftliche und soziale Rechte) sind zwischen Anfang des Jahres und Ende November 2022 mehr als 575 Menschen bei dieser Überfahrt ums Leben gekommen. Dabei werden…
This factsheet presents a summary of the distress cases witnessed in August 2022 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne Operations with the aircraft Seabird 2. (1) In August 2022 we flew in the Maltese Search-and-Rescue (SAR) zone only, conducting 14 operations over a total flight time of 74 hours and 49 minutes. We spotted 38 boats, carrying around 1,243 persons in…
Together with all our supporters we will welcome the Sea-Watch 5 into the civil fleet on the first weekend of November! On November 5th and 6th, we invite all supporters to Hamburg to join the conversation and board the ship. In addition to thematic tours of the Sea-Watch 5, there will be other exciting programme…
(1) In April 2020, the Maltese authorities ordered the merchant vessel IVAN first to only stay on stand-by and then to leave the scene of a distress case. The people have been pushed back to Libya by a fishing vessel afterwards: https://alarmphone.org/en/2020/04/16/twelve-deaths-and-a-secret-push-back-to-libya/?post_type_release_type=post. (2) In July 2020, the Maltese authorities ordered the merchant vessel COSMO to only…
Recent events in Italy paint a dystopian picture for civil sea rescue: a few days after the political blockade of the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, Italy votes for a hard right-wing parliamentary shift. The alliance around right-wing radical Giorgia Meloni and her party Fratelli d’Italia, whose election campaign also focused on restricting migration, became the…
