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First test flight of Sea-Air Watch becomes a success

The 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…

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Sea-Watch Newsletter · June 2016

Dear 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.…

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Sea-Watch 2 live: Early start and no end in sight

08:30 am: No end in sight Sea-Watch 2 has so far been engaged with 4 boats this morning. One wooden boat is already disembarked by us and MSF. Another rubber boat is getting evicted at the moment. Two more rubber boats in sight will get disembarked by navy. We are having around 50 men and…

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Live from the Sea-Watch 2: More boats are coming

19:00: Mission Report The second day of exhausting work in a row comes to an end: At all six boats were sightet in the early morning hours. Three of them were provided aid by Sea-Watch crew, 40 women and 3 children were taken aboard. The other three, among two woodens boats, were evacuated by Topaz…

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