Exhausted and sometimes without life jackets, hundreds of people are drifting in overcrowded boats on the Mediterranean because they are looking for a better life in the EU. Civilian sea rescuers are in constant use.
The private aid organization SOS Méditerranée has saved other boat migrants from drowning in several operations in the central Mediterranean. The crew of the “Ocean Viking” have almost 470 rescued people on board, as the organization announced on Twitter. The volunteers got people on board from overcrowded wooden and rubber boats in the Maltese search and rescue zone. Many were physically exhausted, some had been out on the open sea without life jackets.
Meanwhile, the German organization Resqship was waiting for a safe harbor with its motorsailer “Nadir” and almost 60 rescued migrants on board. The civil sea rescuers warned in a tweet that their boat was not designed to take care of so many people. The “Nadir” had saved the people on Friday. She usually reaches migrant boats in distress, alerts the authorities or other aid organizations with larger ships.
Also underway are the “Geo Barents” from Doctors Without Borders and the newly put to sea “Humanity 1” from the German organization SOS Humanity. Migrants mostly cast off from the shores of North Africa for the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean to reach the EU, where they hope for a better life.
Source: Stern
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