August 11, 2025: After rescuing 67 people in distress at sea in the morning, a pregnant woman’s water broke on the civil rescue ship Sea-Watch 5. Although she encounters rare complications requiring urgent land-based medical attention, no coastal state carried out a medical evacuation yet. The mother and baby are in mortal danger. The previous…
DetailsThe Italian authorities have detained the Seabird 1 monitoring aircraft belonging to the civilian sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch with immediate effect. This marks a new escalation in the Italian government’s fight against civilian human rights observation in the Mediterranean. On Thursday, 7 August, the crew of Seabird 1 was informed by the aviation authority ENAC…
DetailsJuly 31, 2025 – Two days after rescuing more than 90 people from a capsized boat in the Mediterranean Sea, the captain of the merchant ship PORT FUKUOKA is still alone at sea with the survivors. Among them are three pregnant women and the bodies of two deceased children. One woman reports that her water…
DetailsTwo children dead and one person remains missing after a boat in distress with over 90 people on board capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on 29 of July 2025. The monitoring aircraft Seabird 2 of the search and rescue organization Sea-Watch first spotted the boat in distress on Monday, 28 July, and alerted all responsible European…
DetailsThe 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…
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