September 2026

September 2	Louise Michel spotted an overcrowded, unseaworthy metal boat in distress close to the Vali platform. Despite an oil supply vessel interfering with the rescue, on behalf of Libyan coast guards, 54 people, including 3 children, were rescued and safely disembarked in Italy.
September 3	AMA, the boat of NGO Sailidarity, rescued 4 people from the Didon platform.
September 9	The team aboard the Ocean Viking carried out 3 rescues in the Maltese SRR. The first rescue followed a Mayday Relay matching a distress case reported by Alarm Phone and later spotted by Sea Watch’s SeaBird 3 aircraft. The 17 survivors had spent approximately 26 hours at sea. The team then rescued 16 people following a Mayday Relay from SeaBird 3. Later, the crew overheard a Mayday Relay from Frontex’s Falcon 1 and rescued 45 more people from a rubber boat, also spotted by SeaBird 3. 24 people were rescued in international waters by MSF teams and brought aboard the ship Oyvon. They had been adrift for nearly 2 days in a rubber boat.
September 10	Sea Punks 1 responded to a distress case near the Bouri oil platform, rescuing 20 people from a disabled fiberglass boat. The vessel was later detained by the Italian authorities.
September 18	The NADIR crew spotted 5 people stranded on the abandoned Tunisian oil platform Didon. After notifying authorities, the crew launched the tender to bring all survivors aboard. At that moment, a so-called Libyan Coast Guard speedboat approached aggressively the rescue scene. Tension mounted over a forced takeover. More scLCG vessels arrived and encircled NADIR as the ship set course north. Heading north, NADIR responded to a distress alert from Alarm Phone involving ~30 people.
September 20	The MSF crew aboard Oyvon rescued 31 people. Among the rescued, there are 6 women and girls and 12 minors, 9 of whom are unaccompanied.
September 29	The Aurora crew rescued 28 survivors of an horrific shipwreck and 2 dead bodies. At least 6 people, including 3 children, are reportedly missing.