3 January Open Arms rescues two boats adrift with 6 and 52 people on board, one of which first contacted the AlarmPhone for assistance. After disembarkation in Salerno two days later, a 17 and 20-year-old are arrested, accused of having…
3 November Ocean Viking assists a boat in distress in the Ionian Sea. During the night, 75 men, women & children are rescued from a sailing boat that departed from Izmir, Turkey. The MSF team rescues 29 men and one…
1 December In the afternoon, the Geo Barrents rescues 44 people from 2 fiberglass boats in distress. Among the survivors there are 4 children less than 3 years old, 4 women and several unaccompanied minors. 3 December Administrative detention for…
3 October Colibri 2 provides critical support to Nadir in 3 operations with 125 people in distress. 4 October The Alarm Phone receives a distress call from a boat with 53 people. Louise Michel is in the area and finds…
4 September Louise Michel (LM) rescues 24 people from an unseaworthy wooden boat then spends the next 12 hours searching for a second boat with 44 people in coordination with AlarmPhone. They are finally found late in the night, many…
1 July Through the night, Humanity 1 (SOS Humanity) rescues 201 people over the course of 5 rescue operations. The distant port of Ortona is assigned, requiring an unnecessary 3.5 additional days of journey. 3 July Geo Barents (Médecins sans…
2 August Open Arms, after rescuing 24 people, respond to an alert of 2 additional boats with 100 people. Upon arriving to the position, the so-called Libyan Coast Guard is on scene, having set fire to one boat and intimidates…
1 May After Alarm Phone received and forwarded several distress calls to authorities and NGO‘s, the Geo Barents (Médecins Sans Frontières) is able to rescue 299 people from a huge overcrowded fishing vessel and 36 people from a small fiberglass…
1 June The Mare*Go performs her first rescue of 36 people who tried to reach Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered to disembark the survivors in Trapani which is a day of sailing away. For not complying but instead disembarking the survivors…
9 April The sailing ship Nadir (RESQSHIP) attends to a shipwreck off Lampedusa and is able to rescue 22 people and to recover two bodies. Unfortunately, around 20 people also went missing (4). 15 April After Seabird 2 finds…
7 March Following a distress call received through the Alarm Phone, the Life Support (Emergency) rescues 105 people from a rubber boat fleeing Libya (1). 24 March After Alarm Phone forwarded a distress call from 190 people in distress, with…
2 February Seabird 2 finds 31 people in distress and the Sea-Eye 4 (Sea-Eye) rescues the group. The boat departed from Tunisia and drifted at sea for 6 days before they were found. Unfortunately, 3 people didn’t survive the journey.…
