Sea-Watch has taken note of the incident that took place aboard the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vessel Bourbon Argos on 17.08.2016, when a number of armed men boarded the ship. First and foremost we are happy that our colleagues from MSF are unharmed and the perpetrators were unsuccessful in carrying out…
Month: August 2016
Introduction of Melanie, the new intern
Militating for refugee rights and women protection, I am currently doing an MSc in Humanitarian Aid at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. As part of my studies, I have been asked to gain practical experience through an internship that I have been free to choose. Therefore, also as part of the Erasmus +…
“These volunteers are trying to save desperate refugees from drowning off the coast of Libya” – Foreign Policy
This month’s Foreign Policy issue has a special focus dedicated to Sea Watch’s work : “Twenty miles off the Libyan coast, a scrappy band of volunteers is saving thousands of lives in the Mediterranean. In July, photographer Amnon Gutman spent 12 days on board the 50-year-old 100-foot Sea Watch 2 in Libyan coastal waters with…
24. August 2016 Sea-Watch 2 Dispatch: August 18th 2016
Credits: Federica Mameli
22. August 2016 Berlin’s Christopher Street Day gives Soul of Stonewall Special Award to Sea-Watch
The Berliner CSD e.V. awarded Sea-Watch with this prize “for their work for their passion and also for their implacability beyond German borders. The way Sea-Watch turns private individuals into life-savers is impressive and inspiring. It’s a shining example what a group of people can achieve if they follow an idea and find the courage…
Live from the Sea-Watch 2: Calmed sea brings Refugee-Boats
The wind at the Central Mediterranean Sea has calmed down and the refugee boats are back on the water. At about 6am our crew spotted the first boat, a small wooden fishing boat with about 28 passengers from Egypt, Morocco, and Bangladesh. Directly after we had safely brought the group to the Sea-Watch 2, another…
Live from the Sea-Watch 2: Medics Brandon about the death of a young woman · Crew 7
A sad occurrence overshadowed the missions of the last days Brandon, medic on the Sea-Watch 2, reports about the death of a young woman who died as she fled yesterday.
Live from the Sea-Watch 2: Captain Reinhard about yesterday’s Mission
Yesterday showed once more that sea-rescue cannot be the only solution to the humanitaran crisis in the Mediterranean Sea caused by the EU. Altough we could once again rescue the life of a few hundred people, some of them even from a wooden boat, we had to register numerous deaths. 15 people were stuck under…
Live from the Sea-Watch 2: From rubber-boats which are sinking, small and large wooden boats
At 05:45 our lookout discovered a small wooden boat. In good cooperation with the Astral of Proactiva Open Arms the people were taken on board. On the Sea Watch 2 were directly after these mission about 26 persons who are mainly from Bangladesh, including a woman and a child. Shortly after, we discovered a second…
Portrait of a fleeing: Amadu
Amadu fled when he was fifteen. He fled Gambia over Libya to go to Europe, now he is sixteen, turning seventeen. Both parents of Amadu died. Now he only has his two sisters left, they stay strong together, he told Sea Watch. Still in Gambia he learned in a Nursery-Schook. He loved working with people,…
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