The SOS MEDITERRANEE and MSF team transport a women to be medically evacuated from the Aquarius by an Italian Navy Helicopter to Sfax, Tunisia. All medical emergencies together with their caretakers were evacuated from Aquarius– a total of sixteen people. This included all six resuscitated children and several women with water on their lungs.
January 27, 2018 - In a nightmarish day on the Mediterranean yesterday 99 survivors from a sinking rubber boat were rescued by the Aquarius, but an unknown number of men, women and children are missing, presumed drowned.
Dozens of people were already in the sea when the Aquarius arrived at the scene around 9.30am, and the rubber boat was already deflating. All floating devices were deployed from Aquarius, rafts were launched and the rescue team started pulling people from the sea.
The MSF medical team on board the Aquarius resuscitated six young children, and one woman. Despite their best efforts they were unable to resuscitate two other women who had drowned.