Dear Prime Minister Mario Draghi, after yet another tragedy occurred in the Mediterranean last Thursday, we believe it is essential to ask you for an urgent meeting. Every time a shipwreck occurs, we hope it will be the last. Also the tragedy of these days could have very likely been avoided. There are people who…
DetailsTwo years ago, on 28 March 2019, the merchant vessel ElHiIblu1 arrived in Malta and three teenagers were arrested and accused of having committed a multiplicity of crimes, including acts of terrorism. An alliance of human rights activists calls on Malta to drop the charges immediately. On 26 March 2019, 108 people were rescued from…
DetailsEarlier this month, the administrative court in Palermo lifted the blockade of our two ships. Now the next wave of politically motivated harassment is already following: this time it strikes the Sea-Watch 3. Last June, the Sea-Watch 3 was detained by the Italian authorities after rescuing 211 people. After the ship was allowed to go…
DetailsItalian authorities had detained the rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 after a port state control on Sept. 19, 2020, on flimsy grounds. Today, Tuesday, the Administrative Court in Palermo preliminarily suspended the detention of the Sea-Watch 4. Meanwhile, the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, with 363 rescued people on board, continues to wait off Sicily for the…
DetailsOn February 19, the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 left for its first mission after an enforced break of more than seven months. In five different rescue operations, it was able to rescue 363 people from distress. In a sixth operation, the crew could stabilize another boat carrying about 90 people until the Italian Coast Guard…
DetailsIt has been more than 7 months since 211 people were allowed to leave the Sea-Watch 3 in Italy after three successful rescues. Afterwards, the Sea-Watch 3 was detained again. But we used the forced break in Spain and carried out upcoming maintenance work and conversions with the help of dozens of volunteers. Once again,…
DetailsAirborne is a department of Sea-Watch e.V. which monitors the Central Mediterranean using the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird and Seabird, in order to document human rights violations and spot people in distress. These operations are conducted together with the Swiss NGO Humanitarian Pilots Initiative. The purpose of the following Annual Report 2020 is to provide an overview…
DetailsThis factsheet presents a summary of distress cases witnessed by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew from the aircraft Moonbird.* From November 2020 to January 2021, primarily due to bad weather in the Central Mediterranean Sea, we flew only 16 missions with a total flight time of 73 hours and 22 minutes. We spotted around 165 persons in…
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