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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 Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.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 Rescued 223 People From A Gathering Storm During Christmas Mission
Since the SEA-EYE 4 arrived in the Maltese search and rescue zone on Thursday, numerous reports of boats in distress reached the rescue ship. While the crew carried out several rescue missions, Malta did not perform its duty of sea rescue.
SEA-EYE 4 starts Christmas mission with help from United4Rescue
On Saturday afternoon the rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 set out on its fourth rescue mission. The departure was largely made possible by the sea rescue alliance United4Rescue.
Italy sends SEA-EYE 4 with 800 people rescued to Trapani
After so many hard hours of waiting, good news finally reached us from Rome. But some of the guests are already spending their fifth night on board.