ABOARD THE M.Y. PHOENIX, in the Mediterranean Sea — It's dawn on the Mediterranean but it's already baking hot and the humidity is oppressive. The sea is a perfect blue. The only sounds are the hum of the engine and the swells lazily slapping against the hold of the Phoenix. The sea was calm overnight. To the team of rescuers aboard, though, that's an ominous sign.
The distress call comes after breakfast but it takes an hour to reach the wooden fishing boat that has lost its rudder and is drifting aimlessly in the sea 10 miles off the coast of Libya. Top-heavy with hundreds of desperate men, women and children crammed into it, the unseaworthy boat is in imminent danger of capsizing Read more...
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