Rescue Ship with 572 Migrants Pleads for Mediterranean Port
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
Staffers distribute food to migrants on the deck of the Ocean Viking rescue in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, July 5, 2021. A charity rescue ship with 572 migrants aboard on Thursday, July 8, 2021 pleaded for permission to dock at some Mediterranean port as food aboard was reporting running short. Luisa Albera, search and rescue coordinator of SOS MEDITERRANEE, launched an urgent appeal from aboard the Ocean Viking. She said five requests to maritime authorities to assign a port of safety have gone unmet and tensions aboard the ship are worsening after several days in very crowded conditions. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee via AP)
ROME (AP) — A charity running a rescue ship with 572 migrants aboard in the central Mediterranean pleaded Thursday for permission to dock at some European port, saying food was running short and tensions rising on the crowded vessel.
Luisa Albera, search and rescue coordinator of SOS Mediterranee, launched an urgent appeal from the Ocean Viking, that’s between Malta and the southern Italian islet of Lampedusa, south of Sicily. She said five requests to maritime authorities to assign a port of safety have gone unmet.
Among those aboard the Ocean Viking are 369 migrants rescued on July 4 from a boat that the group said was in danger of capsizing in the Mediterranean.
“Making survivors wait on the deck of our ship, exposed to the sun and elements, is inhumane,” Albera said.
She said on Wednesday evening a man in “acute psychological distress” jumped overboard, was rescued and brought back on ship.
“In addition, we will run out of pre-packed 24-hour food kits tomorrow (Friday) and will not be able to fulfil all survivors’ nutritional needs by Saturday,” Albera said in her appeal. “With over 570 survivors accommodated on the aft deck of the Ocean Viking, all available space is being used,” making it impractical to prepare cooked meals and distribute them, she said.
Italy and Malta insist that other European Union nations also take a share of the migrants after they reach European shores. They insist it’s unfair to leave the two central Mediterranean nations to care for them while they apply for asylum. Because most in recent years are economic migrants, many are found ineligible for asylum, and their homelands are often reluctant to take them back.
During the pandemic, Italy has taken to quarantining rescued migrants aboard out-of-service commercial passenger ferries until they can be transferred to asylum processing centers in Sicily or on the mainland. While many migrants reach Italy after rescue at sea by charity boats, cargo ships or military vessels, others make it to Italy’s southern shores unaided after they set out from Tunisia or Libya.
Separately, the death toll from the sinking of a migrant boat near Lampedusa on June 30 rose to 16 late Thursday, after the Italian coast guard said another nine bodies had been spotted in or near the wreck of the wooden fishing vessel.
A coast guard statement said an underwater robot found the wreck some 90 meters (300 feet) deep. Inside the wreckage, one body was spotted while those of eight other migrants were located nearby on the seabed.
The packed, 8-meter (25-foot) boat capsized just as coast guard rescue crews were arriving, and seven bodies were soon pulled from the sea, while 46 people were rescued.
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