Carola Rackete is a German ship captain and conservation scientist, who volunteered with the German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch. In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the port of Lampedusa, Italy.
Rackete in 2020
Carola Rackete (2023)
Sea-Watch is a German non-governmental organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea, notably by commissioning ships to rescue migrants.
Sea-Watch
Stickers of Sea-Watch and its Defend solidarity campaign
MS Sea-Watch, a 100-year old former fishing cutter, on her first mission
MS Sea-Watch surrounded by refugee boats and life rafts while it waits for assistance on 5 July 2015