6:30 (4:30 UTC) in the morning announced the bridge that’s scary quiet. Hardly waves but only SAR and Warships in sight. At about 9 pm (7 UTC) the Sea-Watch 2 course took a few points on the radar, whereby you doing actually emanated from fishing boats. Shorty thereafter it goes very quickly. The calmness had…
DetailsAt 6 am the sixth crew of the Sea-Watch 2 spotted the first boat. The speedboat was not even in the water, as there were already four boats for our crews to deal with. After the first two boats were supplied (each about 120 people including pregnant women and children) with life jackets, our crew…
DetailsThe airplane crew of Sea-Watch Air and Humanitarian Pilots Initiative – HPI could today spot 2 rubber boats off the Libyan coast during a test flight! The position of both cases was reported to MRCC and all people were rescued by SAR vessels shortly after. Our plane took off at 6 o´clock local time from…
DetailsDear Sea-Watch supporters, The following is a short summary of our recent projects in addition to events influencing our present activities. Owing to alarming developments recently, we have been forced to extend our rescue capacities in the central Med; we have acquired and equipped an airplane to be transferred to North Africa for our mission.…
Details09.00 am The Crew is dealing with 5 boats at the moment, including a wooden boat with about 450 people aboard. On board of Sea-Watch 2 are 40 women and at least 10 children. All life vests were handed out. Situation remains difficult to overview.
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