EMERGENCY's Life Support Vessel Has Completed Its First Sea Rescue In The Central Mediterranean.

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Mediterranean Sea

EMERGENCY's Life Support Vessel Has Completed Its First Sea Rescue In The Central Mediterranean.

We are onboard Life Support now with 70 people. The rescue operation was done lastnight. At around 5am, we finished the recovery. Now, our medical staff is taking care of them. Everything is under control. The rescue operation was not easy because of the lack of light due to night, and conditions that were not stable because of the structure wooden boat, but everything went well because we had a professional team onboard, both in terms of the medical part and rescue. They ready to go on with this kind of operation.
Carlo Maisano, Project Coordinato Life Support

Among the 70 people are 5 women, one of whom is 7 months pregnant, 2 children under the age of 2, and 24 unaccompanied minors aged 13 and over. They come from Somalia, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali. They are mostly dehydrated, there are a few cases of scabies, and one person is experiencing convulsions.

Life Support received a report from Alarm Phone of a boat in difficulty in the Libyan SAR area. After locating the boat, Life Support informed all authorities and immediately activated the rescue team.

It was a complex rescue, our team tell us, which ended at approximately 5am this morning.

A Libyan Coast Guard unit was present during the rescue operation and later recovered and destroyed the empty boat.

We asked for a port of safety where we could disembark the survivors. The port of Livorno was assigned to us by the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre at 10.59am.