09.00 am The Crew is dealing with 5 boats at the moment, including a wooden boat with about 450 people aboard. On board of Sea-Watch 2 are 40 women and at least 10 children. All life vests were handed out. Situation remains difficult to overview.
08:30 am: No end in sight Sea-Watch 2 has so far been engaged with 4 boats this morning. One wooden boat is already disembarked by us and MSF. Another rubber boat is getting evicted at the moment. Two more rubber boats in sight will get disembarked by navy. We are having around 50 men and…
19:00: Mission Report The second day of exhausting work in a row comes to an end: At all six boats were sightet in the early morning hours. Three of them were provided aid by Sea-Watch crew, 40 women and 3 children were taken aboard. The other three, among two woodens boats, were evacuated by Topaz…
After more than 12 hours of mission the two speed boats are finally craned and the crew is receiving a long deserved rest. The pictures of today’s events depict happy people shortly after their rescue, thoughtful people in long waiting periods and – sadly – also one dead body being transferred onto another rescue vessel.…
Does the Turkish Coast Guard hold responsibility for the deaths of two persons at sea? Sea-Watch, ProActiva/Open Arms, Human Rights at Sea, CADUS and WatchTheMed Alarmphone demand an independent investigation of a fatal distress case that occurred on 19.03.2016 in the Aegean SeaOn the 12th of May 2016, a Joint Statement by Sea-Watch, ProActiva Open Arms, WatchTheMed Alarm Phone, Human…
