Live from the Sea-Watch 2: Our guests on board 07:00 pm After one mission in the morning there seems to be no open case in our surrounding area. Crew is whipping the ship into shape and is finally having some rest after days of exhausting work. Despite all terrible incidents of the past days we want…

Live 7:00pm We are still assisting the recovery of dead bodies that are meanwhile scattered in a wide area due to the wave movements. Doctor Thomas Lenzen is giving a statement about the disastrous happenings of this mission day. (In German) https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fseawatchprojekt%2Fvideos%2F1722414734643267%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Live 1:00pm Our crew just reached the scenery of a capsized wooden boat…

Live 2:30 pm We are today experiencing the greatest tragody in the Mediterranean Sea in all times. Operational area is full of boats, 16 are confirmed, 3 boats have already capsized, many dead. Sea-Watch 2 is currently involved in 2 cases, one stable rubber boat with 115 people aboard and one sunk boat we are attending to…

Mission report May 24th 2016 We could today spot a refugee boat that was not able to set off a distress call on its own and was therefore drifting into death off the Libyan coast. Aboard 131 people including 50 women, 1 pregnant and 15 children. One child needed to be treated by our medical…

In the morning: Two distress calls reached us, one rubber boat is in sight. The speed boat is already on its way. There are no other ships in the area that could possibly perform rescue. Mission report May 11th 2016 We could today respond to two distress cases north of Libya: Boat 1: Approx. 115 people including…

Since deal between Turkey and EU was concluded end of March and the systematic deportation of refugees back to Turkey has been enforced, the number of refugee arrivals on Aegean Islands has dropped dramatically. Sea-Watch therefore decided on pausing our mission in the Aegean. We will however monitor the region vigorously within the framework of…

Boat 1: 112 people including 60 women, pregnant women and children Boat 2: 120 people Everyone was rescued. After handing out life vests and assessment by our medics they were transferred to Italian Navy. They are now brought to Italy. Crew is happy but exhausted and got now back to patrolling for more refugee boats….

High waves and no refugee boat traffic made us spend the day working on deck and practicing fire emergency with the crew. We are highly motivated to save lives in the coming days.

Sea-Watch 2 received distress call yesterday in the afternoon. Together with other rescue organisations we set off to the suspected area north of Tripolis. Aquarius of SOS MEDITERRANEEcould save 120 refugees from a dinghy. Unvarified rumours of refugees having been thrown overboard left Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye searching desperately for survivors until night. We did not find anyone. Photo: Patrick Bar · SOS MEDITERRANEE

Dear friends of Sea-Watch, Harald Höppner – Initiator Sea-Watch e.V. Today, exactly one year after the embarkation of Sea-Watch 1 from Hamburg, our new flagship Sea-Watch 2 will launch its rescue mission on the Central Mediterranean Sea. I want to use this opportunity to thank you all for your tremendous support in making this possible,…

CADUS / Sea-Watch condemn the deportations from Greece to Turkey which are taking place in line with the EU-Turkey deal since today morning, starting from our operational area Lesbos. Furthermore we sharply condemn pushback actions carried out by the Turkish coast guard, often by using violence against refugees. The recent agreement is forcing refugees on even…

Henry Christian Thomsen and his wife Ellen Margrethe are a symbol of resistance movement during WW2. The couple saved more than 1000 Jewish refugees by conveying them from Denmark to Sweden by boat. This is why Sea-Watch and CADUS – Search & Rescue new operational vessel was today christened after H.E. Thomsen. It will rescue…