MOAS Mediterranean Sea mission – 2016

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  • Red Cross nurse Daniela Francesconi with Nigerian child 3 year old Fridaus rescued from a rubber boat carrying 114
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  • Stanley from Sierra Leone was unable to walk and was pulled off the rubber boat he was on by the MOAS SAR team swimmer Paul Chamberlain
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  • Rubber boat carrying 129 with the Phoenix in the background. A skiff lurked in the area, probably in hope of taking the engine from the migrant boat after the rescue. They were chased off by the presence of the German ship Frankfurt and a navy helicopter
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MOAS Responder in Aegean Sea

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  • 23yr old mother of 3 children Keria Bshar Qasim, fled Sinjar along with other villagers after Daesh, ISIS took over their village. killing many of her community including her aunt which she personally witnessesd. Said, her husband and her joined a rubberboat from Turkey with their 3 young children and 58 other Yazidis. They spent four hours at sea before they were rescued by the MOAS team
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  • MOAS rescue in Aegean Sea
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  • MOAS rescue boat driver fist bumps with two boys rescued from an openboat carrying 55
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  • 11.45pm the MOAS team make a sighting of a large rubber dinghy with 48 people onboard ( 8 males, 16 females and 14 children). The boat is in distress in the heavy swell. Three men are then spotted in sea by the MOAS searchlight. The men looking exhausted are encouraged to swim and grasp hold of the Jacobs ladder hanging on the side of the MOAS Rescue ship, Responder. With rescues swimers at the ready, the men are pulled to safety. The men had fallen from the dinghy and could not climb back due to the high seas and their boat being already so overcrowded. Their rubberboat with their familiy members aboard was then safely brought alongside the Responder and all remaining 45 people, mainly Syrians were brought on deck, exhausted and wet.
  • 11.45pm the MOAS team make a sighting of a large rubber dinghy with 48 people onboard ( 8 males, 16 females and 14 children). The boat is in distress in the heavy swell. Three men are then spotted in sea by the MOAS searchlight. The men looking exhausted are encouraged to swim and grasp hold of the Jacobs ladder hanging on the side of the MOAS Rescue ship, Responder. With rescues swimers at the ready, the men are pulled to safety. The men had fallen from the dinghy and could not climb back due to the high seas and their boat being already so overcrowded. Their rubberboat with their familiy members aboard was then safely brought alongside the Responder and all remaining 45 people, mainly Syrians were brought on deck, exhausted and wet.
  • A MOAS rescue swimmer helps guide the migrant boat alongside the MOAS mothership, Responder. The overloaded open boat carrying 55 migrants. made a diistres call to say they had lost engine power and were drifting in the heavy swell. The SAR team launched their fast rescue craft and brought the migrant boat next to the MOAS mothership, Responder. It was an extremely challenging rescue because of the heavy sea swell, but all the migrants were safely brought aboard.
  • A young Syrian child is lifted to safety from an overloaded open boat carrying 55 migrants. A diistres call had been made from the boat to say they had lost engine power and were drifting in the heavy swell. The SAR team launched their fast rescue craft and brought the migrant boat next to the MOAS mothership, Responder. It was an extremely challenging rescue because of the heavy sea swell, but all the migrants were safely brought aboard.
  • 9th of Jan 2016 MOAS is altered by HCG of a rapidly deflating rubber dinghy with women, children and men onboard. The deflating boat is close to being swamped by waves in the rolling sea. The SAR team using the MOAS mothership, Responder to give lee side, they approach the boat in their fast rescue craft, with rescues swimmers standing by incase anyone falls into the water, the experienced SAR team quickly evaacuate the boat, of all 40 people. This was a challenging rescue in view of the 1 -1.5m waves and the state of the migrant craft. The VOI was severely deflated and would have gone under had it not been for MOAS’s timely intervention. MOAS disembarks at 0925 at Agathonisi port.
  • A Syrian refugee girl in a shelter on Agathonisi. Although they have crossed the Aegean a long difficult trip awaits the over one million migrants and refugees who make to trip to Europe.
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  • MOAS and CISOM team in Pythagoria
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  • A young Syrian man tries to sleep in the sun at a shelter after a difficult night He has learned that his cousin Khalid died in the crossing. He studied engineering in Syria and hopes to make a new home in Germany where he will continue his studies.

Rescue at Sea – 369 migrants rescued by MOAS after being spotted by the Schiebel CamCopter S100

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  • 369 migrants rescued by MOAS after being spotted by the Schielble Camera Copter
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M.Y. Phoenix Launch in May 2015

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MOAS in 2014

  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
  • MOAS rescue 105 migrants in rubber dinghy October 4, 2014. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/MOAS
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