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Since fall 2021 Sea Shepherd Italy started a cooperation to search for illegal fishing activities in the Mediterranean. Learn more about...

Help from the air: How Swiss pilot Pascal Stadelmann and his crew are helping to rescue migrants from the Mediterranean. Author: Anna...

After the first very successful test drops in Switzerland in 2018 from a PAC-750, HPI was now able to demonstrate further successful...

This factsheet outlines a summary of the distress cases witnessed in March 2021 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew with their aircraft Moonbird...

Europe is using a new tactic in the Mediterranean to fend off migrants: aircraft instead of rescue ships. Research by the Republic...

Airborne is a department of Sea-Watch e.V. which monitors the Central Mediterranean using the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird and...

Con Daniela Sala siamo saliti a bordo di Moonbird, l'ultraleggero di cui l'ong tedesca Sea-Watch e la no profit svizzera Humanitarian...

“I did not think a lot about refugees at Europe’s borders until I saw the situation with my own eyes. I wish more people would be able to...

Pilot who wants to save people from distress at sea and Europe's values. By Dunja Ramadan On normal days, Omar El Manfalouty sits at his...

On holiday, Omar El Manfalouty rescues refugees in the Mediterranean. "I have better things to do than watch people die," says Omar El...