On Tuesday evening, the SEA-EYE 4 rescued 32 people from an unseaworthy wooden boat. Already on Sunday, the crew had rescued 17 people. Despite these successful operations, Sea-Eye now faces heavy penalties in Italy.
Sea rescuers criticize German government for planned tightening of asylum law The SEA-EYE 4 departed Burriana on Friday evening (19.05.2023) for the second rescue mission in 2023. Now the crew is on its way to the Central Mediterranean Sea. There, the rescue ship is urgently needed, because this year alone, more than 1,000 people have already […]
On board SEA-EYE 4, a young man from Bangladesh told our crew member Fiona why he left his country and the dangers he faced in Libya.
At the end of this difficult mission, we mourn three people who died on the escape.
In the first of two rescues during the night from Thursday to Friday, all help came too late for two people. The crew of the SEA-EYE 4 could only recover their bodies, including the mother of a baby, who is now being cared for on board the rescue ship.
Today, more people have already died at Europe’s borders than the new year has days! All the more important that the SEA-EYE 4 could now cast off.
With new rules of conduct at the end of the year, the Italian government wants to further complicate the work for civilian sea rescue organizations and, according to legal experts from Sea-Eye’s Legal Team, massively interferes with the rights of the flag state Germany, European law and international and regional human rights guarantees.
Three people with severe fuel burns, which they had contracted on their boat due to gasoline spills, had to be taken directly from the ship to a hospital. At noon, all people were finally able to leave the rescue ship.
In the night our crew was able to rescue 45 people from distress at sea in the Maltese search and rescue zone, after they had been fighting for survival on the high seas for six days. Previously, Italy and Malta had actively tried to prevent the rescue of these people.
While the EU is inactive, we have today joined forces with two other organizations to ensure that people in acute danger of life were helped. Some people had to be treated on board the SEA-EYE 4.