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A massive thank you to our incredible crews and all our supporters on land, at sea, and in the air! 🤍

Lampedusa was assigned as the port of safety. All 29 people disembarked safely by midnight. We wish them a safe onward journey. With this distress support, we conclude NADIR's tenth operation this year and the 2025 OP year, in which our crews supported 1855 people from 32 boats in distress at sea.

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.

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Early Sunday morning, everyone was able to disembark safely on the island. We wish all our guests strength for their upcoming journey.

📸 1,2 RESQSHIP/ Roberta Derosas ; 3 RESQSHIP/
Thorsten Kliefoth

So our crew first distributed life jackets to everyone and was then able to bring all people safely on board the NADIR shortly afterwards. The competent authorities assigned the NADIR Lampedusa as the next port of safety. On the way there, our crew had to navigate around a large thunderstorm front.

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.

All 71 people were brought safely on board the NADIR, where they were provided with medical care, rescue blankets, water and food. Yesterday morning, the NADIR reached Lampedusa and all survivors could safely disembark. We wish them all the best!

📸 Paula Gaess, Thorsten Kliefoth | RESQSHIP

Special thanks go to the crew of #Seabird1, the reconnaissance aircraft of @sea-watch.org, who stood by us when heavily armed assets of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard approached. They monitored the situation from the air, shared vital information and supported our crew in this difficult situation.

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.

The NADIR arrived Tuesday night on the island with the 73 survivors of the first distress case. We wish them strength and safety on their onward journey.

📸 Stefania Olivotto | RESQSHIP

While en route, the NADIR was informed of a second distress case by @alarmphone.bsky.social and @sea-watch.org 's monitoring aircraft #Seabird. The Louise Michel evacuated the 32 ppl from that boat, while the NADIR stood by, ready to assist if necessary, before later resuming course to Lampedusa.

This case once again shows that Tunisian authorities are neither able nor willing to coordinate or assist in situations of distress at sea. Civilian rescue remains essential to prevent further loss of life.

Our crew assessed the scene and quickly decided to evacuate everyone onto the NADIR and proceed to the assigned Port of Safety, Lampedusa. The crew of the @louisemichelcrew.bsky.social was also on scene and helped to shuttle the survivors to the NADIR.

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.

The evacuated people had departed from Libya two days earlier. After being assigned Lampedusa as Port of Safety, NADIR reached the island around midnight. All 56 survivors disembarked safely.

📷 Stefania Olivotto | RESQSHIP

After distributing life vests, our crew brought everyone safely aboard NADIR and provided first aid and drinking water. Many survivors were severely dehydrated and exhausted after spending days exposed to the elements.

survivors aboard NADIR after evacuation holding tight to ship and holding hands

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.

After Libyan gunfire, 140 people disembark in Pozzallo: one person is critically injured, two others seriously wounded

🚨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:

The two vessels monitored the situation until the Italian Coast Guard arrived and evacuated all people on board and brought them to Lampedusa, where they disembarked safely in the early morning hours.
📷 Stefania Olivotto | RESQSHIP

Our crew again stabilised the situation, but due to the high number of people and difficult sea conditions, it was impossible to properly assess everyone’s medical condition. According to the survivors, one person is missing.

Together with the help of merchant vessel IVY 1, which gave shelter to wind and 2m swell, our crew stabilised the situation, informed the responsible authorities and distributed life vests. When IVY 1 and NADIR further accompanied the survivors, they met 100 more people on a second boat in distress.

The survivors were heavily affected by the strong waves and many people stayed under deck – an extremely dangerous situation due to poor air circulation and toxic chemical fumes.

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.

After handing in the report on Sunday in Lampedusa, NADIR sailed to a fourth distress case relayed by Seabird 3. In the dark, the crew found 77 people. Two went overboard but were recovered by our tender. Later, all were evacuated by the Coast Guard.

📷 Stefania Olivotto | RESQSHIP

While en route to submit a report, Sparrow2 reported another distress case near NADIR. Our crew searched all night and early morning, finding an empty, unmarked boat. We are worried. If drowned or intercepted – the fate of those on board remains unknown.

Shortly thereafter, @sea-watch.org Seabird3 reported a distress case nearby: around 88 people on a wooden boat. Our crew found them too, and they were brought to Lampedusa by the coast guard before the weather worsened on Sunday.

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.

📸 Pietro Bertora | RESQSHIP

At sunset, we faced the silence of injustice. The abandoned boat was a manifest symptom of Europe’s border policies outsourced to militias. These are not rescues but forced returns, leaving rights shattered at sea and lives erased without accountability.