Sea-Watch e.V. is a non-profit initiative dedicated to the civil sea rescue of refugees. In view of the humanitarian disaster in the central Mediterranean Sea-Watch provides emergency aid, demands and at the same time forces the rescue by the responsible European institutions and publicly stands up for legal escape routes. We are politically and religiously independent and are financed exclusively by donations.
All members of the seafarer’s world know very well, that sea rescue is nothing else than a duty. We also know, that there are people in distress and it is forbidden to look away. That is why we sail out to the Mediterranean Sea.
