| May 1 | Geo Barents rescues 52 people from a wooden boat alerted by AlarmPhone. Among the rescued are a dozen unaccompanied teenagers (1). |
| May 3 | Life Support rescues a group of 87 people alerted by and Pilotes Volontaires (2). |
| May 4 | Nadir finds a metal boat with 40 people, including 4 infants. Water was leaking into the boat and the engine was broken. The boat is stabilized then brought to Lampedusa by Italian coast guards later in the evening. |
| May 5 | With support by Pilotes Volontaires, Nadir locates and helps to stabilize an overcrowded metal boat with 44 people, including 4 infants (3). |
| May 6 | Alerted by AlarmPhone, Nadir conducts a difficult operation in the night involving 50 people. Unfortunately, one body is recovered during the operation. |
| May 13 | Alerted by AlarmPhone and supported by Seabird 2, Aurora assists 2 boats in distress with 51 people, later brought safely to shore by Italian coast guards (4). Geo Barents rescues 43 people in distress from a wooden boat. The distant port of Civitavecchia is assigned as place of safety (POS). |
| May 14 | In the night, Nadir stabilizes a fiberglass boat with 22 people on board, including 3 children. The case was initially alerted by AlarmPhone. |
| May 16 | In the afternoon, the crew of Humanity rescues an overcrowded, unseaworthy wooden boat with 28 people alerted by AlarmPhone. Marina di Carra, a distant port 1150km away is assigned POS. Later in the night, AlarmPhone alerts another case with 42 people, half of whom are minors. Humanity1 responds, conducting the rescue in the middle of the night, to the boat with a broken engine and no lifesaving equipment on board. |
| May 20 | Ocean Viking finds a fiberglass boat with 35 people on board. Alerted by AlarmPhone, they had already spent 3 nights of sea and were suffering from hypothermia and dehydration (5). |
| May 23 | Supported by AlarmPhone, Nadir finds a wooden boat with 42 people who had spent 3 days at sea. They are brought on board and later disembarked in Lampedusa. |
| May 27 | Humanity1 rescues 100 people from two boats, one rubber and the other fiberglass. The distant POS of Livorno is assigned, requiring 1170km and 3 days of travel. |
| May 28 | AlarmPhone alerts two distress cases and Humanity1 is able to locate the first 45 people and an additional 40 people from both boats. Unfortunately, an infant did not survive. Despite the necessity to disembark the now 185 survivors from Humanity1 as soon as possible, authorities refuse to assign a closer POS than Livorno (6). |
| May 28 | 41 people are rescued from wooden boat by Ocean Viking in Libyan SAR. A Maltese helicopter was on scene, but did not communicate with the NGO ship. |
| May 29 | After an alert by AP, Ocean Viking locates a drifting fiberglass boat with 26 people in the Maltese SAR. Distant POS Ancona is assigned, requiring 3 more days of travel for the survivors who have already spent 3 days at sea. Nadir responds to an overcrowded metal boat with 45 people on board. During a rescue operation with ITCG, 30 people fall into the water and the boat sinks. Luckily, everyone was recovered from the water, and all were safely disembarked in Lampedusa. In the middle of the night, AlarmPhone alerts a boat in distress with 51 people on an overcrowded rubber boat. Sea-Eye 4 conducts the rescue. The distant port of Genoa is assigned 600 miles away. After an alert by AP, Sea Punks I locates an overcrowded wooden boat with 130 people on board late in the night. All are eventually brought safely to Lampedusa |
| May 31 | AlarmPhone alerts a distress case found by Geo Barents, which finds an additional boat soon after. 84 people were brought on board from the two rescue operations |
