the last nights on the central med

A state of insomnia surrounds the rescuers and the rescued in the Search and Rescue Zones of the central Mediterranean Sea. We had 10 rescues in 72 hours, many of them at night. In late summer, numerous people try their luck to cross the sea towards Europe, before they would face rougher seas in winter. The war in Ukraine has made food prices rise, and life in many places in the world has become unbearable. The Sea Watch 3 is one of the vessels that has rescued the most humans in history, and since its last mission, it has been detained by Italy's (“post-“) fascist government.