SOS Méditerranée is a European, maritime-humanitarian organisation for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya.
The MV Aquarius, formerly Aquarius Dignitus and Aquarius 2, is a 1977-built German Fisheries Authorities ship, used since 2020 as a Russian deep sea survey vessel. The ship was used to rescue refugees
SOS Méditerranée
…for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya. The organization chartered the Aquarius and more recently the Ocean Viking in order to rescue people fleeing by sea from Libya and who risk drowning. The group was founded in June 2015 by…