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The paper boat is a fairly common tattoo in Search and Rescue crew members

Giuseppina takes notes on a sheet of paper to remember the names of crew members by their physiognomy.

David, Care Team manager, takes notes on a bridge bench.

Evenings in Palermo harbor are filled with common activities for the ship to do, in this case the crew is peeling several pounds of garlic.

The ship's hold is loaded with everything needed before departure.

Dall’arabo: “No alla discriminazione e razzismo Tutti siamo figli del mondo Si alla solidarietà No al razzismo” From Arabic: “No to discrimination and racism We are all children of the world Yes to solidarity No to racism”

Dinner on the Palermo harbor deck with the entire crew

Dragos (Rhibs Team Manager) explains rescue activities with the help of wooden models

Learning Knots from Google

Santa Rosalia's sanctuary on the top of Monte Pellegrino. In memory of the victims in the sea.

First Aid training with the crew

Juan during engine control check

Passport controls before departure

Lasse, chief engineer from the Tool Room

Till, Head of Operations e RHIB Coordinator a bordo, osserva la costa siciliana il giorno della partenza della missione della Humanity 1. Till, Head of Operations and RHIB Coordinator on board, observes the Sicilian coast on the day of Humanity 1’s mission departure.

Luke is writing the journal, Samir is fixing the deck and Ruth, the rescue buddy is lying on the floor

Reflections from bridge's windows

During the search for a drifting boat, the watch is twenty-four hours, whatever the weather conditions.

A carefree moment on Humanity 1, the ship stops for a swim in the open sea.

Un momento di tranquillità sulla Humanity 1, la nave si ferma per una nuotata in mare aperto. A carefree moment on Humanity 1, the ship stops for a swim in the open sea.

Silvia, the shipboard doctor, falls asleep on the clinic stretcher on a calm afternoon in the middle of the sea

Our position from the Vassels Finder website

Sunrise from the bridge

Radar warns (in yellow) of a strong incoming storm

Joachim, Capitano della nave, assiste attentamente a tutte le attività di addestramento sulla nave. Joachim, Captain of the vessel, reliably attends all training activities on the ship.

So Called "Lybian Coast Guard" ship seen from the camera of the drone

Shot taken from binoculars of the so called "Lybian Coast Guard Ship"

Colibri 2 flies over Humanity 1, second rescue will happen in cooperation with them

From the bridge come communications of a ship in distress

From the bridge come communications of a ship in distress

Le carte nautiche cartacee sono ancora utilizzate a bordo nave. The paper charts are still used on board the vessel.

The dinghy carrying 113 people is almost completely emptied

preparing for the first rescue

Samir's team prepares to deploy rescue rhibs

The rescued people are put on Humanity 1

Miguel chats with a boy lying on the deck.

Se le prime notti a bordo sono state sopportabili, negli ultimi dieci giorni le temperature si sono abbassate drasticamente e il mare è diventato mosso. Non tutte le persone soccorse hanno potuto dormire in zone riparate. If the first few nights on board were endurable, in the last ten days the temperatures have dropped dramatically and the seas have become rough. Not all people rescued have been able to sleep in sheltered areas.

The main deck in the night is full of sleeping people wrapped in blankets, moving around is extremely difficult and there is always the risk of stepping on someone

Some boys trying to warm themselves through heat lamps

Some of the guys on the crew decided to make a map of Europe to give to the people on board

Every day, in shifts, cell phones of rescued people are recharged. Since there is no wifi or even network some people had to wait up to 14 days before they got close to Italian shores before they had a chance to write to their families to tell them that they were okay.

A paper boat made by a boy on board with the inscription "Sorry Egypt"

Josh from the bridge

The final count of people rescued

Le notti sul ponte della nave sono scaldate da alcune lampade riscaldanti. Night on the main deck warmed by heat lamps

11.Una persona soccorsa mostra il video girato durante il viaggio sulla barca di legno. A rescued person shows the video taken during the journey on the wooden boat from which they were later recovered.

Vicino alle coste siciliane è stato occasionalmente possibile ottenere un campo per chiamare casa dopo due settimane. Near the coast of Sicily it was occasionally possible to get a field to call home after two weeks. However, the signal remained weak, which made it even more frustrating

Sopravvissuto si affaccia guardando il mare. Survivor looking out to sea.

18.Alle persone salvate viene comunicato che l'Humanity 1 potrà avvicinarsi al porto di Catania per iniziare lo sbarco, ma che lo sbarco non sarà assicurato per tutti. La notizia è sufficiente a generare uno stato di euforia in tutta la nave. Rescued people are told that Humanity 1 will be allowed to approach the port of Catania to begin disembarkation but that disembarkation will not be assured for all. The news is enough to generate a state of euphoria throughout the ship.

Rescued people wait in line for medical checks that will decide whether they will be deemed "in distressed condition"

Joachim, il capitano, saluta le persone soccorse durante lo sbarco. Joachim the captain, hugs rescued people just before their disembarkation.

the last people on board are finally disembarked

The ship Humanity 1 pulls away with part of the crew on board to the port of Burriana in Spain

Sign at the entrance to the Catania coast guard offices praising the maritime system for safeguarding human life at sea, a project funded by the European Union.