{"id":59625,"date":"2026-08-17T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sea-watch.org\/?p=59625"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:10:19","slug":"14-bodies-found-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sea-watch.org\/en\/14-bodies-found-in-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Bodies Found in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid dt-default\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"meta-origin\" data-coolorigin=\"https%3A%2F%2Fprodcollabora.sea.watch%2Fcool%2Fclipboard%3FWOPISrc%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnextcloud.sea-watch.org%252Findex.php%252Fapps%252Frichdocuments%252Fwopi%252Ffiles%252F11132187_ocs5rfoo3m7c%26ServerId%3D8e0f6494%26ViewId%3D4%26Tag%3D9d20d14f56473989\">\n<p class=\"western\"><b>After the search and rescue organisation SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e discovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sosmediterranee.org\/11-bodies-spotted-two-violent-interceptions-witnessing-the-consequences-of-eu-support-from-above\/\" target=\"_new\">11 bodies<\/a>\u00a0in international waters in the Mediterranean on Friday, 14 August, Sea-Watch\u2019s monitoring aircraft Seabird 1 and the rescue organization RESQSHIP found three more bodies over the weekend. The crew spotted the corpses on Saturday, 15 August.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Following the discoveries, the rescue vessels\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seawatchcrew\/status\/2088689788387807558\" target=\"_new\">Sea-Watch 5<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/resqship.org\/\" target=\"_new\">Nadir<\/a>\u00a0sailed to the bodies in order to initiate identification measures. Due to the state of decomposition and the limited recovery capacities of the civilian vessels, the bodies could not be recovered. To Sea-Watch\u2019s knowledge, European authorities have so far not initiated any recovery operation either.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Giulia Messmer, spokesperson for Sea-Watch<\/b><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\"><em><i>\u201cThese are the people behind \u2018fewer arrivals\u2019 \u2013 hunted while alive, forgotten once dead. Behind each of these bodies is a person with a life of their own and loved ones who may never know what happened. The responsibility lies with European politicians who prioritize border violence over human lives.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\">Since the beginning of the year, more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/missingmigrants.iom.int\/region\/mediterranean\" target=\"_new\">1,600 people<\/a>\u00a0have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean. These bodies are a brutal reminder of the consequences of a policy that denies people safe routes while at the same time restricting, obstructing or failing to provide necessary rescue operations at sea. Sea-Watch calls for safe passages and a comprehensive, state-run search and rescue operation to prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the search and rescue organisation SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e discovered\u00a011 bodies\u00a0in international waters in the Mediterranean on Friday, 14 August, Sea-Watch\u2019s monitoring aircraft Seabird 1 and the rescue organization RESQSHIP found three more bodies over the weekend. The crew spotted the corpses on Saturday, 15 August. Following the discoveries, the rescue vessels\u00a0Sea-Watch 5\u00a0and\u00a0Nadir\u00a0sailed to the bodies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":59624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,52,136,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airborne","category-uncategorized","category-pm-en","category-sea-watch-5-en","category-212","category-52","category-136","category-177","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 Bodies Found in the Mediterranean &#8226; Sea-Watch e.V.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sea-watch.org\/en\/14-bodies-found-in-the-mediterranean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14 Bodies Found in the Mediterranean &#8226; Sea-Watch e.V.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] After the search and rescue organisation SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e discovered\u00a011 bodies\u00a0in international waters in the Mediterranean on Friday, 14 August, Sea-Watch\u2019s monitoring aircraft Seabird 1 and the rescue organization RESQSHIP found three more bodies over the weekend. 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