Before dawn this morning, Life Support, EMERGENCY NGO’s search and rescue vessel, rescued 96 people from two boats in distress in international waters in the Libyan SAR zone, during two different rescue operations. A third rescue operation of a further 62 people was carried out later this morning in international waters in the Maltese SAR […]

At 10:15am today, Tuesday 13 August, 64 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship, Life Support, disembarked in the port of Ortona. They had been rescued on Friday 9 August in two separate operations, both located in the international waters of the Maltese SAR region, in the central Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were small, unsuitable for […]

At 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, 1 August, the 41 rescued people on board EMERGENCY’s ship Life Support completed disembarkation procedures at the port of Naples. They had been rescued in the early hours of 29 July, in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The 41 shipwrecked men and boys, including three unaccompanied children, […]

In the early morning of 29 July, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, rescued 41 people from a boat in distress in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The small, overcrowded fibreglass boat was sighted from Life Support’s bridge just before 3:00 a.m. The rescue was completed when the 41 people, including three unaccompanied […]

Rome, Italy, 19 July 2024 – Under the European Union’s complaint mechanisms,¹ the European Commission (EC) has failed in its commitment to asses, within 12 months, separate complaints to investigate Italian law and practices which obstructs search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean.   In July 2023, five leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – the […]

Yesterday, Wednesday, 10 July 2024, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed three rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea, rescuing 178 people from four boats in distress. On the same morning, one of EMERGENCY’s mobile medical clinics assisted 378 migrants who disembarked at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo after being rescued off the […]

In the early morning of Wednesday, 10 July, Life Support – EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel – rescued 74 people from two boats in distress within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. Forty-one people were on board the first vessel, and 33 on the second. The two boats were sighted around 5:00 a.m. […]

Today, Sunday 30 June, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed the disembarkation of 47 people, who were rescued in the central Mediterranean, in the port of Livorno at 11.30 a.m. The rescue took place on Wednesday 26 June in international waters, in the Libyan SAR zone. Among those rescued were three women and […]