Sea-Eye

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Sea-Eye eV
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purpose Rescuing people in distress
Chair: Gorden Isler
Establishment date: 2015
Number of members: 450
Seat : regensburg
Website: sea-eye.org

Sea-Eye is a German aid organization to rescue people in distress , mostly refugees, in the Mediterranean Sea . The seat of the non-governmental organization is in Regensburg .

history

The then "flagship" Sea-Eye on March 18, 2018 in Valletta
The Seefuchs on March 23, 2018 in the port of Valletta
Alan Kurdi , the former professor Albrecht Penck (2008)

The idea of ​​founding the aid organization Sea Eye arose from an initiative to help refugees. Among others, the entrepreneur Michael Buschheuer founded the Sea Eye eV association in Regensburg in 2015. The association bought the 26-meter-long, former fishing cutter Sternhai from Sassnitz ( Rügen ) and converted the ocean-going ship for sea rescue. The ship has been operating under the name Sea-Eye ever since . The identical sister ship is the former fishing trawler porbeagle . After the fall of the Wall , this ship was looked after and maintained by private owners as a research and traditional ship. As a sea fox , this ship has also been used for sea rescue in the Mediterranean since March 2017.

Sea-Eye also owned the Ribtec 1200 Cabin RIB rigid inflatable boat. The ship, equipped with two internal diesel engines, reaches up to 45 knots (83 km / h). It is currently owned by the Libyan Coast Guard .

Sea-Eye announced on August 11, 2017 that the Sea-Eye crew had been asked by the EU crisis management operation "Sophia" to come to the aid of the C-Star . The ship had an engine failure and was unable to maneuver. The former research ship had been chartered by the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement for an action against the rescue of refugees. Since the cutter Sea-Eye was the closest to the C-Star, the MRCC Rome commissioned her to help. "Helping those in distress at sea is the duty of everyone who is at sea - regardless of their origin, skin color, religion or conviction," explained Sea-Eye founder Buschheuer.

At the beginning of August 2017, Sea Eye declared that the continuation of its rescue operations off the Libyan coast was “not possible” under the current circumstances and was no longer responsible to the crews.

In September 2017, Sea-Eye decided to resume rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

After Italian authorities arrested the rescue ship Open Arms of the Proactiva Open Arms organization in March 2018 because its crew refused to follow the instructions of the rescue control center in Rome, which had transferred the command for a rescue operation to the Libyan coast guard, Sea released -Eye a statement, according to which one wants to cooperate with the rescue control center in Rome, but does not want to hand over any persons to the Libyan coast guard.

In addition to the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Mennonite Aid Organization , the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising are among the supporters of the association. At the beginning of 2019 , Reinhard Marx allocated 50,000 euros from the funds of the archdiocese to support Sea-Eye.

The organization used the newly purchased rescue ship Professor Albrecht Penck in the Mediterranean, the Seefuchs was given away to a Spanish rescue organization after a Bavarian entrepreneur had donated the equivalent to the association. The Professor Albrecht Penck was established in February 2019 Alan Kurdi renamed.

Rescue operations

The association's ships are ready to help in emergencies at sea off the Libyan coast. They provide first aid and provide the refugees with life jackets and water. The ships have a small infirmary on board. According to Sea-Eye, the Speedy rigid inflatable boat was taken possession of by the Libyan Coast Guard on September 9, 2016 and has been in an undisclosed location in Libya ever since . Sea-Eye says it has rescued around 12,000 people since its operations began in April 2016. Several hundred volunteers worked on the two ships Sea-Eye and Seefuchs until the missions stopped in August 2017 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The ships . In: sea-eye.org . November 6, 2015 ( sea-eye.org [accessed August 15, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Upper Palatinate Media - The New Day: Right-wing extremists in distress at sea: Refugee helpers rush to help . In: onetz.de . ( onetz.de [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b n-tv news television: Sea-Eye no longer rescues refugees . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
  4. ^ Aid organization Sea-Eye: "We are leaving a deadly gap in the Mediterranean" . In: The time . August 13, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 15, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Sea-Eye resumes rescue mission. In: Spiegel Online . September 9, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ "Sea-Eye" is back on the rescue mission. In: Zeit Online . September 10, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Dominik Straub: "The dispute over private refugee helpers returns in Italy" Der Standard from March 19, 2018
  8. ↑ "Rescue more and more dangerous: What to do?" Sea-Eye.org, original: [1]
  9. ↑ "Cardinal Marx donates again 50,000 euros for the sea rescue" . Welt.de from February 1, 2019
  10. ^ "Sea fox in new hands on the way to Spain" sea-eye.org
  11. ^ Alan Kurdi - German rescue ship named after a dead refugee child , Spiegel Online , February 10, 2019. Accessed February 10, 2019.

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