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After rescuing 163 people with SEA-EYE 4: joint operation ends

After several weeks of joint rescue operation, the crew of Sea-Watch, Sea-Eye, and Mediterranea Saving Humans are now parting ways again. We set off into the search and rescue zone twice and rescued a total of 163 people from unseaworthy boats in several rescues. High waves, deep night: In the early morning of March 8,…

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Sea Rescue Organizations ready to join Cutro Shipwreck Trial

The sea rescue organizations EMERGENCY, Louise Michel, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Sea-Watch, SOS Humanity, and SOS MEDITERRANEE, are ready to join the criminal trial in the Cutro shipwreck to act as a civil party. The trial seeks justice for the shipwreck that occurred off the coast of Calabria, Italy, on February 25-26 2023. The alliance calls…

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Aurora rescue ship saves people from gas platform

This afternoon, the Sea-Watch rescue vessel Aurora rescued 32 people from the Miskar gas platform in the central Mediterranean, where they had been stranded since Saturday, 1 March 2025. Despite the imminent emergency, the informed European authorities had not initiated rescue operations, even though the people were stranded in international waters on the border of…

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Saving human lives is a priority

On Saturday, March 1 2025, the Watch The Med Alarm Phone network issued an alert concerning a serious case of distress: 32 people were reported to be on the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese SAR zone. The people reported to Alarm phone that…

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Joint rescue: 41 people on board the SEA-EYE 4

On the night of 22 February, we brought 41 people safely on board the SEA-EYE 4. They had been traveling on an overcrowded boat in high waves. The Italian authorities directed us to the harbor in Naples, and the crossing there took three days. After rescuing 41 people on Saturday night, we spent almost three…

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