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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 Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.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
Medical emergencies on the SEA-EYE 4 pile up
Due to the high number of people, it is difficult for our medical team to provide adequate care to all persons. The health condition of four patients required an evacuation by the Italian Coast Guard.
Sea-Eye crew prevents serious boat accident at night
On Wednesday evening, a distress call reached the SEA-EYE 4. A rubber boat was damaged, water was coming in and people were calling for help. When the rescue ship’s fast rescue boats arrived, the crew faced a dramatic scene in the darkness.
SEA-EYE 4 rescues 416 people from distress at sea
The so-called Libyan Coast Guard was present at two rescues on Wednesday morning. Once they towed a wooden boat to shore, the other time they abducted a group of people in the Libyan civil war.