MY PHOENIX 2ND SEPTEMBER

On September 2, 2015 Phoenix was called to assist two wooden boats in the international waters north of Tripoli. The Bourbon Argos, which was already at full capacity with around 1000 people on board, was on scene standing by and ready to intervene in case of emergency. The MOAS SAR team distributed lifejackets to the people on both wooden boats and transferred the passengers of one of them onto the Phoenix. Once this operation was complete, half of the people carried by the second wooden boat were transferred onto the first and now empty one to stabilize the situation. Phoenix and Argos stood by to wait for the arrival of an Italian coast guard vessel that completed the rescue. At the end of the rescue, Phoenix had 332 people on board, including 113 minors and 105 women coming mainly from Eritrea.

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