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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 Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.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
“I’m really angry with Europe!”
Michael Schwickart from United4Rescue explains in his speech at the christening of SEA-EYE 4 why he is angry with Europe and why we all have to convert our anger into energy in order to rescue people from distress at sea, wherever Europe is not fulfilling its duty to do so.
“I do not want to get used to people dying in the Mediterranean.”
Vice President of the Bundestag Claudia Roth spoke moving words at the christening of the SEA-EYE 4. Her criticism of the EU and the German government was as clear as her support for sea rescue.
“If they hadn’t found me then I wouldn’t be alive today.“
Alpha Jor Barry gave a stirring speech at the christening of the SEA-EYE 4. Listen to him! Listen as he shares his experiences and makes his demands. This goes above all to the address of the European Union.