RESQSHIP
@resqship.bsky.social
Present on the Mediterranean Search and Monitoring #NADIR #ProtectPeopleNotBorders
Following a Mayday Relay from @alarmphone.bsky.social, on Thursday, our crew spotted an overcrowded rubber boat in distress. 27 people had spent three days at sea after leaving Zuwara, Libya, trapped in an unseaworthy boat with 1m swell, water taking on, and zero life jackets.
Join us at our PRESS POINT in #Lampedusa 3 July, 6.00 p.m. At Agricola 'Mpidusa (DM for details) Ahead of the visit of #PopeLeoXIV and together with six other organisations, we highlight upon survivors perspectives and 'migration management' observations on the local piers.
On Sunday, our NADIR crew followed a Mayday Relay from Osprey1 and evacuated 38 people in distress from an unusually small, overcrowded 6m rubber boat. The survivors included 4 minors from Somalia who bore visible scars from months of physical violence and torture in Libya.
Hier #AlbatrossUNO a repéré une embarcation pneumatique en détresse avec 50 personnes à son bord. Le voilier #Nadir de l'ONG @resqship.bsky.social a pu intervenir et leur porter secours. 👉La surveillance aérienne sauve des vies.
On Wednesday afternoon, our crew evacuated 51 people from a rubber boat that had set sail from Libya the previous day – including 15 children and minors, 8 women, and 38 men. Once aboard NADIR, they received medical care.
🔴 BREAKING: Italy is investigating our captain! After rescuing 166 people from distress at sea and being SHOT AT, CHASED, AND THREATENED WITH ABDUCTION by EU-funded Libyan militias, our crew is now being targeted – WTF?!
BREAKING: After attack on Sea-Watch 5, Italy opens criminal investigation against captain • Sea-Watch e.V.
Saturday, 16 May – Italy has opened a criminal investigation against the captain of the Sea-Watch 5 with the accusation of “aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration”. The Sea-Watch 5 had entered t...
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Last night, the NADIR crew responded to an @alarmphone alert and briefly thereafter found 44 people, including ten women (one pregnant) and four children. Their black rubber boat already took on water.
🔴 SHOTS FIRED Our Sea-Watch 5 is being shot at by the EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard. Our crew just finished rescuing 90 people, but Libyan militias are still following us. They expressed the intent to abduct us to Libya!
Tuesday night, the crew responded to 3 separate distress situations – one on an abandoned oil platform and two unseaworthy boats. The NADIR brought 90 people to the next place of safety, Lampedusa. [1/3]
Yesterday, the NADIR crew sighted 27 people in distress on a fiberglass boat. The boat had departed Libya a day prior, but its engine had failed, leaving those on board without any life-saving equipment. Everyone was safely evacuated onto our sailboat.
@frontex.bsky.social, are you serious? Your aircraft saw a boat in distress but instead of informing ships for rescue, it only informed planes. Our air-crew reacted, flew to the scene & did what Frontex should've: inform ships. @resqship_int brought all survivors to Lampedusa this morning✊
53 people in distress, while Europe watches. On monday, NADIR was alerted by a @en.sea-watch.org aircraft to an unstable rubber boat. Our crew immediately evacuated everyone – including 10 minors and a 2-year-old child – from the unseaworthy vessel. [1/2]
This week, 116 people were stranded for four days on the Miskar offshore gas platform in the middle of the Mediterranean - among them two babies, one child, and several teenagers. They had fled Libya and were caught in a storm with winds up to 40 knots and 6-meter waves.
Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs
UN experts urge Malta to drop charges against El Hiblu 3 and uphold migrants’ rights „We condemn these unjustified charges. We are also concerned that Maltese law criminalises as terrorism conduct that is not genuinely terrorist under international law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts urge Malta to drop charges against El Hiblu 3 and uphold migrants’ rights
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Malta to end the unjustified prosecution of three boys known as the “El Hiblu 3” on terrorism charges that could carry life sentences.Amara Krumak, Abdalla Bari and Ko...
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Following an Eagle1 Mayday Relay, the NADIR assisted 29 people in distress from a dangerously overcrowded rubber boat on Tuesday. Due to the urgent need for medical attention, all were immediately taken aboard the NADIR vessel. Tunisian authorities arrived but departed after a brief exchange.
In Kooperation mit @sea-eye-ffm.bsky.social @resqship.bsky.social @alarmphone.bsky.social @hpiswiss.bsky.social Armut+Gesundheit @seebruecke-frankfurt.de @united4rescue.org & Respekt! www.landungsbruecken.org/de/programm_...
Last Saturday morning, our crew found a fiberglass boat in distress with 47 people on board. @alarmphone.bsky.social had previously reported the boat. When our crew arrived, the boat was already taking on water, and the people had no life jackets.
Wednesday noon, our crew assisted 71 people in distress in a heavily overcrowded rubber boat. Among them women and children. The boat was at severe risk of capsizing with waves around one meter high. When NADIR arrived, the people on board were extremely exhausted, many seasick, some with fever.
On Tuesday morning, our crew encountered a rubber boat in distress, alerted by @alarmphone.bsky.social. 73 people, including 4 unaccompanied minors, were on board. Water was already entering and there was a high risk of drowning.
On Sunday at noon, our crew spotted 56 people, including several minors, crowded onto a rubber boat that was taking on water. Those on board reported that the situation was rapidly worsening and becoming life-threatening as the waves and panic increased.
🚨Breaking: our fears became true. Yesterday, three people were shot by Libyan militias, one of them is in a coma. The so-called Libyan coastguard is financed and trained by the EU. We hope strongly that everyone will survive. More info:
After Libyan gunfire, 140 people disembark in Pozzallo: one person is critically injured, two others seriously wounded
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Last night, 175 people on two boats were supported by NADIR with help of Merchant vessel IVY1. Our crew responded to a distress case alerted to by @alarmphone.bsky.social and soon encountered 75 people on an overcrowded wooden double decker who had departed from Libya 3 days earlier.
NADIR assisted 243 people over the weekend and found a fourth boat empty. On Saturday at noon, our crew spotted 78 people on an unseaworthy wooden boat. After stabilising the situation, the survivors were evacuated by the Italian coastguard.
❕Empty boats, shattered rights❕ On monday, following a Mayday Relay from EAGLE2, reporting 50 people on an overcrowded boat, NADIR headed south to support. Upon arrival, our crew observed a high-speed vessel from the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Radar showed it stop briefly before turning east.
Harassment at sea following an evacuation of 44 people‼️ On Monday evening, our crew evacuated 44 people from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress. Amongst them were eight minors. The survivors had no life-saving equipment, the engine was broken, and the boat had already taken on water.
This morning, NADIR overheard a Mayday Relay from a fishing vessel: 130 people on a wooden boat. Alongside @openarmsfund.bsky.social’ ASTRAL, NADIR headed to the scene. ASTRAL notified about another case: 60 people on a rubber boat. We gave life vests, but the Italian Coast Guard soon evacuated all.
Today, we mourn three young sisters, aged 9, 11, and 17, who lost their lives far too soon, drowned Friday night in a flooded, overcrowded boat. Their mother, brother, aunt, and friends survived, but now face the unbearable grief of losing them in such a senseless way. Our thoughts are with them.
🖤 Three sisters aged 9, 11 and 17 drowned in the #CentralMed, another person remains missing. Our NADIR crew rescued 65 people from a flooded, overcrowded rubber boat that same night, on saturday early morning. The group had departed Zuwara, Libya, the day before.
