Mediterranea Saving Humans

The idea of Mediterranea was born in the summer of 2018 out of indignation at the thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean and the policy of closed ports. From the union of people and associative realities, the civil society platform organised itself and in a short time put the first and still the only Italian-flagged civil rescue vessel at sea. Exactly five years after the tragic Lampedusa massacre, the Mare Jonio set sail from the port of Augusta for its first monitoring and rescue mission on the night of 3 to 4 October 2018.