During three operations on July 16th and 17th, 2024, the SEA-EYE 4 rescued a total of 31 people from distress at sea. After one of the rescue operations, the so-called Libyan coastguard repeatedly tried to intimidate the crew of the civilian rescue vessel.
Around noon on Thursday (July 11th, 2024), 174 survivors on board the SEA-EYE 4 – including a mother and her baby – reached the port of Genoa. The civilian rescue ship has returned directly to the area of operation.
The SEA-EYE 4 rescued a total of 231 people from distress at sea in several operations on Sunday and Monday (7th/8th July 2024). The survivors included a mother with her baby and a woman nine months pregnant.
From this summer, the sea rescue organisation Sea-Eye e.V. will be sending an all-weather lifeboat to join the rescue effort in the Mediterranean Sea. Beginning on World Refugee Day (June 20th) the organisation is looking for 3,000 ship sponsors to finance the missions.
In a hearing on Wednesday morning, the court in Reggio Calabria ruled in favour of Sea-Eye e.V.’s lawsuit and declared the 60-day detention of the SEA-EYE 4 in March 2024 to be unlawful. The judge found the allegations that the crew of the ship had not followed the instructions of the so-called Libyan coastguard to be unproven.
The former DGzRS all-weather lifeboat NIS RANDERS will save lives in the Mediterranean as the fourth United4Rescue ship. United4Rescue and Sea-Eye are responding to political pressure on civil sea rescue, and its newly- created hurdles, with the fast ship which has been specially designed for sea rescue.
On the night of May 29th, Alarm-Phone informed the authorities and the rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 of a maritime emergency in the Maltese search and rescue zone. At around 2am, the crew of SEA-EYE 4 reached the rubber boat in distress and evacuated the 51 people on board.
The SEA-EYE 4 left the port of Ravenna on Saturday to return to its area of operation in the central Mediterranean. Earlier that day, the crew had evacuated 52 people to safety on the Italian mainland. They had been rescued at sea on May 20th.
The SEA-EYE 4 rescued 52 people in the central Mediterranean on Monday evening. Two people required emergency medical treatment. The rescue operation took place in the Maltese search and rescue zone.
On May 14 2024, the SEA-EYE 4 set off on its mission from the port of Taranto. The Italian authorities had detained the rescue ship for 60 days and Sea-Eye filed an appeal against this. In the ongoing court proceedings, the allegations were deemed not proven.
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