| February 18 | After reaching out to Alarm Phone, 55 people are rescued by Sailing for Blue Lab vessel Nihayet Garnagey VI. All people are brought safely to Lampedusa. After a delay of almost 14 hours by the Italian coast guards, Open Arms‘s vessel Astral is able to reach 52 people on a rubber boat near Lampedusa. |
| February 19 | In the evening, Astral finds a deflated and overcrowded rubber boat with 64 people, including a 3 year old child, alerted by the AlarmPhone. After assisting the people and completing a medical assessment, all are transshipped to the Italian coast guards. |
| February 20 | During the night, Humanity 1 crew rescues around 40 people from an unseaworthy rubber boat. The Italian authorities assign the distant port of Civitavecchia, Italy, 870 km away. Shortly before, the crew spotted another boat. It was empty and almost sunk, indicating an illegal pull-back by the so-called Libyan Coast Guard (1). |
| February 23 | During the night 41 people are brought safely aboard the SEA-EYE 4. They were traveling in high waves on an overcrowded boat. Italy assigns the port of Naples for the disembarkation (2). The Ocean Viking team performs 2 rescues in the Libyan Search and rescue region: 25 people, including 3 women – 1 of them pregnant – and minors are rescued from a fiberglass boat, and 87 people are rescued from a double-deck wooden boat under coordination of Italian authorities. |
| February 25 | Humanity I’s crew finds a boat in distress during the night after receiving a distress call from Alarm Phone: over 70 people on an unseaworthy rubber boat. The Italian authorities assign the distant port of Ravenna for the disembarkation. |
