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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 Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.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
SEA-EYE 4 brings 108 rescued people to safety in Livorno
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.
Malta urges merchant ships to ignore distress at sea
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.
Sea-Eye and Mission Lifeline rescue 63 people from unseaworthy rubber boat
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.