“He told me, he would never enter a boat again. Especially not one of these crappy, overcrowded, instable rubber rafts, in which he had to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Yet he did. To join Sea-Watch, protesting to stop the dying, facilitate safe passage and end the war on refugees in the Med.” These are the…

On October 13 at midday the Sea-Watch Team gathered in Berlin on the shore of the Spree, the river crossing the city, right in front of the German Bundestag. That is the building where all relevant political decisions are taken, as the ones that recently have been remodeling the German policy with regards to immigration….

Sea-Watch is already working to prepare a new mission for the winter period, which consists in providing assistance in the context of migrants crossings between Turkey and Greece. The operational base would be, this time, the Greek island of Lesbos, which has been subject to a particularly high pressure in the latest weeks. Two members…

The whole SW Team is now reuniting in Berlin for a big demonstration taking place on October 13. During the event one of the rubber boats rescued by SW, which has been brought to Germany as evidence, will be placed in front of the Parliament and boarded first by politicians from the German Parliament, then…

Last week the operational phase of the Sea-Watch project in Lampedusa officially ended. The Sea-Watch ship found shelter in the port of Djerba -Tunisia, for the winter. The organization will be back to patrol the Sicilian Channel next Spring, with a new boat, better equipped for SAR operations. The Sea-Watch Team emptied the land base…

October 3 is an infamous date for Lampedusa. Every year since 2013 the island commemorates the death of 368 migrants right in front of its shore, only 2 miles away. Picture: The Telegraph. The events of that night will always remain blurred. The bodies of the victims collected that night and during the next days…

The Sea-Watch got back from its seventh and last mission on Saturday at 1pm. The unstable weather conditions forced the ship to abandon the SAR area after several days patrolling in the stormy weather. No migrants departures have been registered since Saturday 19th, which when the Sea-Watch assisted with two rescues, in collaboration with the…