In this episode, Sea-Watch's search-and-rescue coordinator Hendrik tells us about the rescue of 32 people stranded on a gas rig in central Mediterranean in March.

 

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For more on Sea-Watch, visit: sea-watch.org/en

 

Follow Sea-Watch on BlueSky: @en.sea-watch.org
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Also, check out episodes 65, 43, 22, 7 and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Sea-Watch.

 

For more on the Miskar Platform rescue, see here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sea-watch-rescues-32-people-left-stranded-on-a-mediterranean-gas-rig/ 

 

You can watch the 2020 YouTube interview I did with Hendrik and Dariush here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kS3OX922Vs&t=1874s&ab_channel=BenCowles (Check out my Covid beard!)

 

For more about the Iuventa, check out episodes: 54, 36, 24, and 2. 

 

You can read more about the Iuventa, here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Iuventa/

 

Hendrik mentions the RNLI – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a lifeboat charity based in the UK. 

 

He also mentions the Humanitarian Pilot Project. You can find out more about them here: https://www.hpi.swiss

 

The Greek coastguards are fascists?
• Read this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0vv717yvpeo, this: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/masked-men-attack-refugee-dinghy-off-the-coast-of-greece-as-coastguard-fails-to-launch-rescue/ this https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/close-to-10000-people-pushed-back-to-turkey-by-greek-coastguard-and-frontex-activists-allege/ and Google Greek Coastguards. 

 

• See here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Greece/

 

• Check out episodes 68, 60, 56, 53, 52, 50, 41, 35, 28, 26, 24, 23, 22, 18, 12, 9, and 4