Thursday morning, the Sea-Watch 3 was alerted by our civil search aircraft Moonbird of multiple distress cases and immediately engaged in the successful rescue of 60 survivors on board a rubber boat in international waters. Before conducting a second rescue of 17 people, Sea-Watch found an empty fibreglass boat and witnessed 150 more people being…
DetailsThe rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3 left the port of Licata (Sicily) this morning and is on its way to the search and rescue zone north of Libyan waters. The organisation had won an appeal in an Italian civil court against the illegal seizure of the ship, which had been detained since the end of June…
DetailsSea-Watch has won its appeal in an Italian civil court against the unlawful seizure of its ship Sea-Watch 3, which has not been allowed to sail since 29 June. Today’s verdict confirms that there is no legal basis for the authorities to keep our ship in port, an act Sea-Watch has long claimed was solely…
DetailsAs of today, the Sea-Watch 3 is registered under the German flag. Consequently, the ship no longer sails under the Dutch flag, and awaits further permission to actually leave port in Sicily. Sea-Watch is compelled to make this switch due to a lack of confidence that the Netherlands, as a flag state, is doing enough…
DetailsThree teenagers who saved themselves and 105 other refugees on the high seas from illegal return to Libya were released on bail yesterday after almost eight months of detention. The #ElHiblu3 (16, 17 and 19 years old today) are accused of terrorism for convincing the crew of the tanker that saved them to bring them…
DetailsWhile the meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg this week once again failed to make any progress towards ending the deadly state of emergency in the Mediterranean, once again civilian actors set an example of solidarity to the European Union: with a donation of 60,000 euros, Sea-Watch is enabling the rescue ship Alan Kurdi…
DetailsWith the present document, the signing non-governmental-organisations involved in search-and-rescue activities in the Mediterranean Sea, jointly share the following considerations and recommendations to the JHA Ministers reuniting in Luxembourg to follow up to the mini-summit of 23 September held in Malta. The question of a fair and human needs-based relocation mechanism remains unresolved. In recent…
DetailsSea-Watch continuous air reconnaissance mission: at least 17 emergencies with more than 750 castaways within five days This week alone, our aerial reconnaissance mission registered 17 distress cases. While some boats in distress were rescued by the rescue ship Ocean Viking of the organizations Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee, at least 3 cases could…
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