SOS MEDITERRANEE

#RespectLawOfTheSea
On the run up to the EU elections, we are doing everything possible to stop the progressive erosion of maritime and international law in the...

Search and Rescue Competency-based Training by SOS MEDITERRANEE
“Rescue is moving people from a place of danger to a place of safety, but the process is also reducing the risks” – Max, Search & Rescue...

Three questions to Viviana – member of SOS MEDITERRANEE´s search and rescue team
Viviana is one of the female sea rescuers of SOS MEDITERRANEE. She has a special place within the team. On the Aquarius, only women were allowed to...

Listen and protect
Since its first operation, SOS MEDITERRANEE, in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), aims at addressing the needs of survivors in the...

[Blink of an eye] – 07.03.2016: The first rescue
“This picture will forever represent one of the first persons saved by SOS MEDITERRANEE. It was on March 7, 2016, at 7:05 AM. An extended hand,...

Three Years of Expertise at Sea
Exactly three years ago, on February 26, 2016, SOS MEDITERRANEE lifted anchor and set out to save people from drowning on the world’s deadliest...

NGOs at sea: unwanted witnesses
Binoculars in hand the rescuer scans the horizon for hours and hours. Armed with his camera the photographer captures what he sees. The journalist...

Open letter to Justice and Home Affairs Ministers: Timely and Predictable European Arrangements for Disembarkation
Dear Minister, 31 January 2019 Timely and Predictable European Arrangements for Disembarkation We, the undersigned organisations, networks and...

Blocking NGOs who provide assistance is not a solution to the EU’s lack of cooperation
Following an administrative, political and judicial harassment campaign targeting the Aquarius, SOS MEDITERRANEE announced its decision to stop...

Moments from 2018
We look back on a stormy 2018: with strenuous missions, but also many moments of hope and joy aboard our rescue ship Aquarius – recorded by our...