| August 7 | Stranded on a platform for two days! Responding to a distress alert from Alarm Phone, the NADIR crew located and rescued five young Somali men stranded on the abandoned Didon oil platform. |
| August 11 | During the night, the Ocean Viking crew spotted a fibreglass boat in distress from the ship’s bridge, within the Maltese search and rescue region. The team rescued all 15 people on board, including an unaccompanied minor. |
| August 12 | The crew of the search and rescue ship Humanity 1, rescued 65 people in distress at sea. |
| August 13 | Last night, Sea Watch 5 observed how 6 people were forced overboard in complete darkness & left behind. Luckily, the Sea-Watch 5 crew could rescue everyone in time, although unidentified violent actors kept harassing survivors and crew. |
| August 16 | The rescue vessel Aurora2 of Sea Watch saved 36 people in distress from an overcrowded boat. |
| August 17 | The Ocean Viking rescued 55 people, including 8 women and 9 children, from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress in the Maltese SRR following a Mayday relay from a Frontex aircraft. Another boat with 50 survivors was rescued at dawn by the Life Support, the search and rescue ship of Emergency, in the international waters of the Libyan SAR area. Seven people died during the crossing. |
| August 22 | Shortly after midnight, the NADIR crew made contact with a black rubber boat in distress off the Tunisian coast. The boat was taking on water and was at risk of sinking, so the crew brought everyone aboard immediately. A Mayday relay was sent right away. Within minutes, all five people were safe: four men and one woman, suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and lack of food and shelter. All five guests arrived safely in Lampedusa later that day. |
| August 24 | The NADIR crew spotted 36 people in distress on an overcrowded, leaking rubber boat following an alert by Alarm Phone. Supported by Albatross 1, the crew notified authorities, handed out life vests, and safely evacuated everyone on board. |
| August 27 | Louise Michel rescued 42 people from an overcrowded rubber boat after an alert from Alarm Phone, then stabilised a second distress situation by distributing life jackets until the Italian Coast Guard arrived and took those on board to safety. The day before, a vessel of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard fired two shots towards the rescue ship in international waters as its crew attempted to assist people who had fallen into the sea during an interception; the people in distress were ultimately intercepted and forcibly returned to Libya. The scene was witnessed by Sea Bird. |
| August 28 | The crew of the ship Humanity 2 conducted two rescues on the 28th and 29th of August. The 71 persons were all disembarked in Lampedusa. Upon arrival in the assigned port of Lampedusa, the Italian authorities issued a provisional detention order against the ship for allegedly failing “to immediately notify the rescue operation to the competent Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre”. |
| August 30 | 18 people were rescued by MSF in international waters from a drifting, unseaworthy fiberglass boat. 11 of the survivors are unaccompanied minors, including one young woman. They were all brought to safety aboard the Oyvon. |
