Mediterranean: More than 500 rescued migrants wait to disembark. Three private rescue ships in the Mediterranean are now waiting for ports in which to disembark the more than 500 migrants they collectively rescued. Sea-Watch 4 has 145 on board, the Geo Barents 470, and 34 people are on deck the Sea-Eye 4.
In the last few days, several private rescue ships have carried out multiple operations in the Mediterranean between the Libyan Coast and the islands of Malta and Sicily Italy. The Geo Barents, run by the humanitarian medical organization Doctors without Borders (MSF) currently has the greatest number on board.
“In the last three days, we rescued 470 people from drowning in the Mediterranean on May 12 by MSF about its ship, Geo Barents.
The Geo Barents rescued many of those people in the Maltese Search and Rescue (SAR) zone, according to the crew. On May 11, Geo Barents already had 374 people on board ship. They posted pictures of two night rescues they conducted in a “five hour operation” in which they brought 111 survivors from two rubber boats. A picture of a small child crying as they are lifted by a Geo Barents crew member to safety is caught in a spotlight in the middle of darkness, many more migrants wait quietly on the rubber boats, their eyes focused on the child and their rescuers.
A picture of a small child crying as they are lifted by a Geo Barents crew member to safety is caught in a spotlight in the middle of darkness, many more migrants wait quietly on the rubber boats, their eyes focused on the child and their rescuers.
On May 10, the MSF crew went to the aid of 59 people traveling on a rubber boat. Among those rescued on that boat, there wree “two people traveling with broken limbs,” stated the crew.