Two groups of migrants were rescued from the Central Mediterranean Sea by the Ocean Viking ship on Thursday. Hundreds of others due to disembark from the Geo Barents in Sicily were forced to remain on board without explanation.
After ten days at sea the Ocean Viking rescue ship has docked in Sicily. As the migrants on board were brought to safety, rescue workers expressed frustration at the EU's failure to coordinate the disembarkation.
After more than a week on board the rescue ship 'Geo Barents', 101 people have been allowed to disembark in Italy. Nearly 300 others, many of them minors, are still waiting at sea on the Ocean Viking rescue vessel.
The Ocean Viking ship currently has close to 300 rescued migrants and refugees on board, following two new operations off Libya. Meanwhile, the Italian coast guard rescued roughly 80 people, and the Geo Barents is still looking for a port to disembark some 100 rescuees.
The humanitarian vessels Ocean Viking and Geo Barents both rescued groups of migrants in distress at sea off Libya over the weekend. Meanwhile, hundreds of people were intercepted and returned to Libya.
On Monday, the crew of the Ocean Viking received permission to disembark almost 160 migrants in Sicily. The humanitarian rescue vessel operated by SOS Mediterranee had been waiting all weekend to be assigned a safe port.
The Ocean Viking private rescue vessel has saved 30 migrants in distress off the Libyan coast, according to its operator, SOS Mediterranee. Attempts of migrants trying to reach Europe from North African shores appear to be on the rise.
247 people rescued from the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking have landed in Italy, after spending days at sea. Another 129 migrants were rescued by the Sea-Watch 4.
The Italian coast guard on Tuesday ordered another administrative detention for the migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking.
In the second episode of InfoMigrants' podcast Tales from the Border, we climb on board the Ocean Viking, the private rescue ship run by SOS Mediterranée. What is life like on board the 'big boat'? Migrants and crew members recount the moments before, during and after a rescue operation.
Italian authorities have allowed 306 migrants on board the Ocean Viking to disembark in Sicily’s east coast port of Augusta. Meanwhile the Italian coast guard rescued 396 migrants from a wooden fishing boat which had run aground off the southern coast of Sicily.
The last remaining migrants and refugees left the Ocean Viking on Tuesday. The rescue ship had landed in Pozzallo, southern Italy, on Sunday with 549 rescuees onboard.