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32 boat people rescued in Mediterranean
The 'Karina' saved 32 boat people from drowning off the Libyan coast. The ship was on its way from Marsaxlokk, where it had sailed on March 26, 2022, to Benghazi with an ETA as of March 30, when it was made aware of the distressed people by the aid organization Alarm Phone. The ship's Ukrainian captain, Vasyl Maksymenko, reported difficult weather conditions in which the refugee's boat was threatened to capsize in waves up to four meters high.. The NGO ship "Sea-Eye 4" was around 50 sailing hours' away at the time of the incident and could not provide immediate assistance. In the afternoon of March 29, it was agreed that the refugees would be taken over by the »Sea-Eye 4«. Several refugees had to be treated for hypothermia and dehydration in the on-board hospital. They had been on the wooden boat for several days and were now to be brought to Malta. However, it is unclear whether they would be allowed to go ashore there. German report with photos: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/libyen-ukrainischer-kapitaen-rettet-32-gefluechtete-vor-dem-ertrinken-a-eca9bf66-2be3-4699-8cc7-0078398f0f47
Three merchant ships in SAR operation for distressed migrants
On May 3, 2020, the 'Marina', while enroute from Sfax to Sousse, resued 78 distressed migrants who were on a boat in difficulty in the central Mediterranean in the evening. Among the rescued was a pregnant woman. Three ships had started a search after the MRCC aksed them to respond. Immediately afterwards, another of the ships that were involved in the search, the Maltese tanker "Pyxis Epsilon", found a dinghy with 43 people on board in the same area. Both ships were in the SAR zone of Malta, but just 20 miles from Lampedusa. During the night no Italian military vessel seemed to have left the island of Pelagie to participate in the operation. Both vessels along with the third ship on scene, the cargo m/v 'Karina', then headed for Lampedusa. But, while the "Marina" with its 78 migrants remained out of Italian waters and was now at anchor waiting for instructions, the "Pyxis Epsilon" has continued to escort the dinghy with the 43 people, all of them sub-Saharan, into Italian waters where the migrants were taken overby patrol boats of the Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza and transported to Lampedusa where they arrived in the afternoon. The tanker resumed its route to Tunisia.
Coast guard arrests then frees Tobruk-bound cargo ship
Benghazi, 30 July 2016: The coast guard stopped an Antigua-flagged general cargo vessel off Ras Hillal today believing it could be carrying weapons and supplies to the mujahideen in Derna, It had set sail from Misrata. According to LNA spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mismari, the vessel, the Karina, was released after a search showed that it carrying no arms and was heading for Tobruk. He added that it had a crew of Canadians and Filipinos. The LNA is blockading Derna both by sea and by road https://www.libyaherald.com/2016/07/30/coast-guard-arrests-then-frees-tobruk-bound-cargo-ship/
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