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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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Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch launch joint rescue operation

The sea rescue organizations Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch have launched a joint rescue operation in the central Mediterranean. With the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, a crew of 28 members of both organizations is on its way to one of the deadliest borders in the world. One week before the German parliamentary elections, the two German organizations…

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