10-11 October 2017 - Over 36 hours the Aquarius took on board 606 people from 7 operations - 5 rescues and 2 transfers from Save the Children’s ship Vos Hestia and an Italian supply vessel. Amongst the rescued people were 50 children under the age of 13-years-old - the youngest just a week old - 12 pregnant women and 200 people from Eritrea and Somalia who had been held in detention centres in Libya for long periods. On October 13, all 606 people were safely disembarked in Palermo, Sicily.