In the Mediterranean sea, more than 2000 refugees and migrants heading for Europe died or went missing in 2021. The central route departing from Libya toward Italy is described as the world’s “deadliest” with the highest number of deaths, and is the epicenter of cross-continental refugee and immigration issues.
It is the search and rescue ship the “Geo Barents” operated by the international NGO ” Médecins Sans Frontières”(MSF) that has been served as the lifeline for refugees and migrants drifting on small boats in the Mediterranean Sea. Since the start of operations in May last year, she saved more than 1,900 people. I am now embedded on the ship which is expected to sail off its seventh voyage in mid-January, to cover the forefront of the “Deadliest Route” in the winter Mediterranean.
