The Mediterranean passage is the most dangerous migrant route in the world, with hundreds of deaths already this year. Sky's Europe correspondent adamparsons has been aboard a boat with the charity MSF, and witnessed first-hand the rescue of 606 people
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerThe sun beats down on us. I’m sweating, and there is noise from every angle. Two marine engines thrum behind me, churning the water of the Mediterranean.
These are the passengers we are now rescuing. Mainly Egyptians, but with groups of Bangladeshis, Syrians and Pakistanis, among other nationalities. They clamber down from the fishing vessel and on to the RIB - the universally used acronym for a rigid inflatable boat. The Geo Barents was never meant to be doing things like this. It was built as an oceanographic survey vessel, which is why there are still huge reels of cable on one of the decks, along with a"seismic room".What is the Geo Barents rescue ship?But MSF wanted to hire a boat to launch rescue missions in the Mediterranean and the Geo Barents was available and fitted the bill.
The biggest area is given over to men, who make up most of the people who are rescued. Upstairs are the minors and also the relatively small number of women. "I was worried about the boat within 30 minutes of getting on board. We all thought it would be bigger and safer than it was. When we left for the first time there were even more people on board - 750 perhaps - but the captain said that we would sink. So about 150 people got off, and then we left."
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