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Association for the rescue of fleeing people in the central Mediterranean
Sea-Eye rescues fleeing people from unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean. We look for helpless people in distress at sea, and fight against the daily loss of life there. Our activity is an answer to the failed migration policies of the European Union, which is denying its responsibility for the thousands of deaths in its immediate proximity.
With our rescue missions, we fill a gap in the search and rescue activity on the Mediterranean Sea to save as many people as possible from drowning. Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.
We are a non-profit association, which is religiously and politically independent. Our work is exclusively financed through donations.
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“It is a fundamental commandment of Christian seafaring to save people from distress. In Hamburg and Lubeck, those traditional harbour cities, this is fortunately still a common good. Let us make this the standard again Europe-wide!”
– Bishop Kirsten Fehrs –
“Neighborly love means for us that, no matter where people come from, what ancestry they have, which skin colour they have, which religion they belong to, we welcome them here with open arms and do not leave them to die miserably in the Mediterranean.”
– Revolverheld –
Together against the loss of life at sea
Italy escalates the obstruction of civil search and rescue
Last week, the Italian government detained three civilian sea rescue ships on the basis of false accusations: the Humanity 1, the Sea-Watch 5 and the SEA-EYE 4. The SEA-EYE 4 is the first rescue ship to be blocked by the Italian government for 60 days.
Italy escalates sanctions against rescue ship SEA-EYE 4
Unbelievable, but Italy has detained the SEA-EYE 4 for 60 days and fined it because the crew saved 84 people seeking protection from an illegal pushback by the so-called Libyan coastguard. Three German rescue ships have now been detained: The German government must act now!
SEA-EYE 4 rescues another 61 people – 2 babies in critical condition
Two distress calls have interrupted SEA-EYE4’s route to the assigned harbour since the last rescue: while the Italian Coast Guard was able to take over the rescue in the first case, the SEA-EYE 4 rescued 61 people under the most difficult conditions on Friday night. One person was emergency evacuated – two babies are in a critical condition on board the rescue ship.