
The private aid organization SOS Méditerranée has saved other boat migrants from drowning in the central Mediterranean on several missions. The crew of the “Ocean Viking” have almost 470 rescued people on board, as the organization announced on Twitter on Sunday night.
The volunteers got people on board from overcrowded wooden and rubber boats in the Maltese search and rescue zone. Many were physically exhausted, some had been out on the open sea without life jackets.
Meanwhile, the German organization Resqship was waiting for a safe harbor with its motor sailboat “Nadir” and almost 60 rescued migrants on board.
The civil sea rescuers warned in a tweet that their boat was not designed to take care of so many people. The “Nadir” had saved the people on Friday. She usually reaches migrant boats in distress, alerts the authorities or other aid organizations with larger ships.