JULY 2024

July 1The crew of Louise Michel assists 36 people, including 17 unaccompanied minors, from an unseaworthy rubber boat in distress (1). 
July 5The crew of Humanity1 rescues 291 people from 3 boats in distress with the support of Sea Bird. A Libyan speedboat is on site but remains at a distance.
July 6Upon arriving in the area of operation, Nadir finds a rubber boat with 33 persons in distress which has alerted Alarm Phone. After distributing water & life-saving equipment, the crew accompanies the boat towards Lampedusa
July 760 persons, who left Libya in a rubber boat, are in severe distress and alert Alarm Phone. Nadir stabilizes the boat by evacuating 22 people onto rafts, and a baby and its mother onto the Nadir. Few hours later, Sea Eye4 arrives and takes all people safely aboard
July 850 people in distress on an overcrowded wooden boat call Alarm Phone. Nadir transfers 20 people onto rafts as the boat is in acute danger of capsizing. Sea Eye4 comes to evacuate all survivors onto their vessel (2).  Ocean Viking rescues 93 people, incl. 4 women and 3 children, from a double-deck wooden boat. For 9 hours, Nadir accompanies 30 people towards Lampedusa.  
July 10Ocean Viking receives a distress alert from Alarm Phone and spots an overcrowded fiberglass boat shortly after. ITMRCC instructs the crew to stabilize it. An Italian coastguard unit completes the rescue (3).  MSF team spots 12 people in distress on a small fiberglass boat. Everyone is rescued. Later, a boat from the Libyan Stability Support Apparatus dangerously approaches the area where MSF teams are conducting a rescue. This triggers fear in people who jump into the water.  MSF teams manage to rescue everyone, with aerial support from Airborne and the 87 people are all rescued onboard the Geo Barents. 
July 17During the night, a boat with 21 people sinks, after alerting Alarm Phone. The Nadir crew finds the 21 survivors in the water despite the darkness, thanks to one survivor who is holding up a light. Ocean Viking rescues 38 people from an overcrowded fiberglass boat in the Maltese SRR.
July 18In the middle of the night, Ocean Viking receives an alert from Alarm Phone about a fiberglass boat in distress in the Maltese SRR. The crew rescues 17 people who are disoriented & suffer from fuel burns.
July 1949 people, including 9 children and 16 women, are found in distress on an overcrowded rubber boat. All survivors are rescued by Geo Barents (4).  Later in the day, 130 people are spotted on an overcrowded double-deck wooden boat and rescued by Geo Barents. The rescue is performed after a 2.5-hour search, in the Tunisian SAR region.
July 20Geo Barents rescues 47 people in distress on an overcrowded iron boat in international waters. People are exhausted after spending almost two days at sea.  Aurora rescues 71 people in an operation together with the sailing ship Trotamar3. Seabird has potted the distress case.
July 21 19 people are rescued, and a pushback is prevented in a cooperation between Alarm Phone, Seabird and SARAH in the Maltese SAR zone (5). 
July 25Sea Watch5 rescues 156 people from two wooden boats. The first rescue is supported by Airborne. Both boats have people below deck (6). 
July 27Louise Michel rescues 40 people from an unseaworthy boat in distress, with the support of Alarm Phone.
July 29Life Support rescues 41 people, including 3 unaccompanied children.
July 30Ocean Viking rescues two overcrowded wooden boats in the Libyan Search and Rescue Region after being spotted from the bridge. Among survivors are 9 unaccompanied minors.
July 31Alarm Phone is alerted about 110 people who fled Libya on an overcrowded boat. When Nadir finds the boat, over 50 of the survivors are crammed in the narrow lower deck.