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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While running search patterns Sunday night, the NADIR crew heard a boat, screams, and dull splashes as the vessel sped away. 8 people in deep distress were swimming towards our ship. The crew deployed Centifloats and pulled everyone directly onboard. No one appears to be missing.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

❗️ NADIR evacuation encircled by Libyan assets Yesterday, NADIR spotted 5 people stranded on the abandoned Tunisian oil platform Didon. After notifying authorities, our crew launched the tender to bring all survivors aboard.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On Monday afternoon, our NADIR crew spotted 36 people in distress on an overcrowded, leaking rubber boat following an alert by @alarmphone.bsky.social. Supported by @sosmediterranee.org's Albatross 1, we notified authorities, handed out life vests, and safely evacuated everyone on board.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yesterday, shortly after midnight, the NADIR crew made contact with a black rubber boat in distress off the Tunisian coast. The boat was taking on water and was at risk of sinking, so the crew brought everyone aboard immediately. A Mayday relay was sent right away.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On Monday afternoon, our crew joined a commemoration in Lampedusa for the people whose bodies were sighted since the weekend. That same evening, NADIR set sail again and initiated the search for a distress case reported by @alarmphone.bsky.social: 31 people on an overcrowded rubber boat.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On Saturday evening, our crew spotted three people in the water. Our medical team could only confirm their deaths. As the NADIR is not equipped for recovery, authorities were immediately alerted with the urgent hope that the deceased might still be identified.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 17/08/2026

On Sat, Aug 15, our aircraft Seabird 1 and @resqship.bsky.social's rescue vessel Nadir spotted 3 more bodies. 14 people in total and behind every one is a person with a life & loved ones who may never learn what happened. Our thoughts are with them.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Update Operation 6 Our 6th crew assisted 32 people in distress at sea. Meanwhile, headlines fixated on a "surge of arrivals" in Ceuta, feeding narratives that justify more militarisation and border control, instead of asking why people are forced to take such risks in the first place.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Stranded on a platform for two days! Responding to a distress alert from @alarmphone.bsky.social, our NADIR crew located five young Somali men (aged 16–20) stranded on the abandoned Didon oil platform.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Following a Mayday Relay from @alarmphone.bsky.social, on Thursday, our crew spotted an overcrowded rubber boat in distress. 27 people had spent three days at sea after leaving Zuwara, Libya, trapped in an unseaworthy boat with 1m swell, water taking on, and zero life jackets.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Join us at our PRESS POINT in #Lampedusa 3 July, 6.00 p.m. At Agricola 'Mpidusa (DM for details) Ahead of the visit of #PopeLeoXIV and together with six other organisations, we highlight upon survivors perspectives and 'migration management' observations on the local piers.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

On Sunday, our NADIR crew followed a Mayday Relay from Osprey1 and evacuated 38 people in distress from an unusually small, overcrowded 6m rubber boat. The survivors included 4 minors from Somalia who bore visible scars from months of physical violence and torture in Libya.

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SOS MEDITERRANEE France @sosmediterranee.fr · 11/06/2026

Hier #AlbatrossUNO a repéré une embarcation pneumatique en détresse avec 50 personnes à son bord. Le voilier #Nadir de l'ONG @resqship.bsky.social a pu intervenir et leur porter secours. 👉La surveillance aérienne sauve des vies.

Crédit : Tess Barthes / SOS MEDITERRANEE

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

On Wednesday afternoon, our crew evacuated 51 people from a rubber boat that had set sail from Libya the previous day – including 15 children and minors, 8 women, and 38 men. Once aboard NADIR, they received medical care.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Last night, the NADIR crew responded to an @alarmphone alert and briefly thereafter found 44 people, including ten women (one pregnant) and four children. Their black rubber boat already took on water.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 11/05/2026

🔴 SHOTS FIRED Our Sea-Watch 5 is being shot at by the EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard. Our crew just finished rescuing 90 people, but Libyan militias are still following us. They expressed the intent to abduct us to Libya!

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Tuesday night, the crew responded to 3 separate distress situations – one on an abandoned oil platform and two unseaworthy boats. The NADIR brought 90 people to the next place of safety, Lampedusa. [1/3]

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Yesterday, the NADIR crew sighted 27 people in distress on a fiberglass boat. The boat had departed Libya a day prior, but its engine had failed, leaving those on board without any life-saving equipment. Everyone was safely evacuated onto our sailboat.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/04/2026

@frontex.bsky.social, are you serious? Your aircraft saw a boat in distress but instead of informing ships for rescue, it only informed planes. Our air-crew reacted, flew to the scene & did what Frontex should've: inform ships. @resqship_int brought all survivors to Lampedusa this morning✊

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

53 people in distress, while Europe watches. On monday, NADIR was alerted by a @en.sea-watch.org aircraft to an unstable rubber boat. Our crew immediately evacuated everyone – including 10 minors and a 2-year-old child – from the unseaworthy vessel. [1/2]

survivors with life vests aboard sailing vessel NADIR after evacuation from distress at sea

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This week, 116 people were stranded for four days on the Miskar offshore gas platform in the middle of the Mediterranean - among them two babies, one child, and several teenagers. They had fled Libya and were caught in a storm with winds up to 40 knots and 6-meter waves.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 12/02/2026

Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs

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El Hiblu 3 @elhiblu3.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

UN experts urge Malta to drop charges against El Hiblu 3 and uphold migrants’ rights „We condemn these unjustified charges. We are also concerned that Maltese law criminalises as terrorism conduct that is not genuinely terrorist under international law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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UN experts urge Malta to drop charges against El Hiblu 3 and uphold migrants’ rights

GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Malta to end the unjustified prosecution of three boys known as the “El Hiblu 3” on terrorism charges that could carry life sentences.Amara Krumak, Abdalla Bari and Ko...

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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.

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

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 13/10/2025

🚨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:

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

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

❕Empty boats, shattered rights❕ On monday, following a Mayday Relay from EAGLE2, reporting 50 people on an overcrowded boat, NADIR headed south to support. Upon arrival, our crew observed a high-speed vessel from the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Radar showed it stop briefly before turning east.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Harassment at sea following an evacuation of 44 people‼️ On Monday evening, our crew evacuated 44 people from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress. Amongst them were eight minors. The survivors had no life-saving equipment, the engine was broken, and the boat had already taken on water.

survivors from a rubber boat in distress after having been evacuated aboard NADIR. In the morning hours they spot the island of Lampedusa, where only a couple of hours later they would disembark safely.

Survivors on an unseaworthy rubber boat with a broken engine after the first contact with the NADIR tender crew. The crew distributed life-saving equipment and drinking water. Only shortly after everybody was evacuated aboard NADIR as the freeboard of the rubber boat was dangerously low.

After the evacuation: helmets resting in the lower deck. In the background: the SAR coordinator and co-skipper.

Disembarkation on the island of Lampedusa. Survivors safely go on land, helped by the RESQSHIP crew. In the background authorities wait on the pier.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This morning, NADIR overheard a Mayday Relay from a fishing vessel: 130 people on a wooden boat. Alongside @openarmsfund.bsky.social’ ASTRAL, NADIR headed to the scene. ASTRAL notified about another case: 60 people on a rubber boat. We gave life vests, but the Italian Coast Guard soon evacuated all.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today, we mourn three young sisters, aged 9, 11, and 17, who lost their lives far too soon, drowned Friday night in a flooded, overcrowded boat. Their mother, brother, aunt, and friends survived, but now face the unbearable grief of losing them in such a senseless way. Our thoughts are with them.

Commemorational post says: We mourn the unbearable death of three sisters who drowned inside a flooded runner boat. Their Lives were taken far too soon. 22nd of August.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

🖤 Three sisters aged 9, 11 and 17 drowned in the #CentralMed, another person remains missing. Our NADIR crew rescued 65 people from a flooded, overcrowded rubber boat that same night, on saturday early morning. The group had departed Zuwara, Libya, the day before.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Yesterday, the aircraft #Seabird2 alerted #Nadir to a distress case. An hour later, our crew found the boat drifting in high waves, with 12 people on board. They had departed from Libya the day before. Nadir arrived just in time as the so-called Libyan Coast Guard was around. 📸 Barbara Sartore

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das nd @nd-aktuell.de · 16/08/2025

Mit der Organisation @resqship.bsky.social war Kaltinka Sturm im Mittelmeer unterwegs, versorgte Menschen in Seenot und war zusammen mit der gesamten Besatzung immer wieder zum Nichtstun verurteilt - durch die italienischen Behörden. #Seenotrettung

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Behinderung von Seenotrettung: »Das Warten ist frustrierend«

Mit der Organisation Resqship war Kaltinka Sturm im Mittelmeer unterwegs, versorgte Menschen in Seenot und war zusammen mit der gesamten Besatzung immer wieder zum Nichtstun verurteilt - durch die…

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 07/08/2025

🚨 URGENT: Italian authorities have just detained our monitoring aircraft Seabird. The italian government is trying to eliminate us as witnesses from the Mediterranean. They want to hide what’s happening at sea. We won’t let them. We will keep you informed.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Around 11 a.m. yesterday, our crew spotted 26 people in distress in the Maltese SAR region. Three women, 23 men –including three minors – had left from Sabratha, Libya, two days earlier in an unseaworthy and overcrowded rubber boat without life-saving equipment, struggling in two-metre waves.

Survivors had to fight the high waves sitting in an unseaworthy rubber boat.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Impressions from our last operation two days ago, joined by journalist Adrian Kriesch for ProSieben. Meanwhile, the NADIR returned to the central Mediterranean yesterday and is once again back in the operational area. credit: ProSieben, Sat.1 / Adrian Kriesch

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

We grieve 4 lives -1 reported drowned, 3 missing, likely taken by the sea. Not lost to fate, but to a violent border regime. The EU turns the Med. into a mass grave, and calls it policy. Our thoughts are with the loved ones who lost a friend. With the families who lost a son, a husband, a brother.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 01/08/2025

Yesterday, our airplane Seabird spotted a boat in distress, at least 14 persons went overboard. @resqship.bsky.social assisted & found 12 in the water. We searched for survivors unsuccessfully. The 2nd gruesome case of neglect we're witnessing this week: EU authorities are a complete nightmare.

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

‪🔴Breaking: People survived 6 days at sea in rough weather, several still missing! This afternoon NADIR located a boat in high risk of sinking, after being informed by the plane of @sea-watch.org. The 36 ppl. including babies & pregnant women had been at sea for 6 days in up to 2m high waves. [1/2]

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🌊The NADIR is back on operation! After a second arbitrary detention and weather delays, our sailing vessel finally left port today. We're heading to the central Med., where independent monitoring is urgently needed. Authorities may try to stop us—but we won't be stopped. ✊

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

🛫 Covering rebooking costs for our crews' travels 🛬 Due to NADIR's two arbitrary detentions, we had to rebook three crew’s travel arrangements – summing up to €4.240,01 in total. 👉 Criminalisation comes at a cost – support us here: resqship.org/en/donations #donate #LetUsSail #FreeNadir

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RESQSHIP @resqship.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

⛽️ Help us cover €1.395 in fuel costs! ⛽️ After NADIR’s detention, Italian authorities diverted our ship to Porto Empedocle. The added journeys – back and forth – meant unexpected fuel expenses. 👉 Support us to get back to sea: resqship.org/en/donations... #FreeNadir 📷 Leon Salner | RESQSHIP e. V.

RESQSHIP’s sailing ship NADIR during it’s last operation heading towards people in distress at sea. When the ship arrived in the port of Lampedusa and had all survivors disembark in safety, NADIR was detained for 20 days.

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