Federica Mameli

At sunset, search and rescue team of Aquarius approaches a rubber boat in distress, with 120 people with 28 unaccompanied minors and 3 children.

Benedikt, a crew's member, watches the horizon in search and rescue area, off Libyan coast, from the bridge of Aquarius.

86 migrants rescued during the night by a supply vessel 55 nautical miles from Libyan coast safely transferred onboard of the Aquarius.

A rubber boat crowded with 125 people rescued at sea by SOS Mediterranee crew. The moment of the transfer is the most dangerous.

A rubber boat crowded with 125 people rescued at sea by SOS Mediterranee crew.

A rubber boat crowded with 125 people rescued at sea by SOS Mediterranee crew. The moment of the transfer is the most dangerous.

A rubber boat crowded with 125 people rescued at sea by SOS Mediterranee crew.

Aquarius crew rescue people from a crowded rubber boat.

A rubber boat crowded with 125 people rescued at sea by SOS Mediterranee crew. The moment of the transfer is the most dangerous.

A migrant prays on Aquarius deck.

At dawn, the deck of Aquarius with a part od 785 people onboard, rescue in 5 different operations.

A man, fled Libya, takes rest on Aquarius deck and describe the hell in Libya now.

Few minutes before dawn, Aquarius rescue a crowded rubber boat with 132 migrants and refugees fled Libya.

At dawn a crowded rubber boat with 132 people fled from Libya.

A migrant prays and thanks for his rescue, here in the Aquarius dinghy.

At dawn, SOS Mediterranee crew rescue a crowded rubber boat with African refugees.

SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders members welcome some refugees after their rescue, off Libyan coast.

A father takes rest in the shelter with his baby.

Migrants and refugees from Africa, few minutes after their rescue, on the deck of Aquarius.

A baby sleeps in the shelter.

In the shelter of Aquarius, during the entrance of the vessel in Augusta port, a man cries moved.

The signs that a refugee has after the tortures in Libya.

Augusta port, Italy. Migrants and refugees wait for registration sitting on the ground. Among them women and children.

Aquarius bridge and radar, sunset.

Aquarius rescue vessel left search and rescue zone, heading to Italy.

A man prays on the Aquarius deck.

A. is 25 and he left Guine in order to study in Algeria and to become agronomist. He has been kidnapped and bought in Libya. Beaten every day, he have decided to cross the sea rather than dying in Libyan detention centres.

In the shelter, a woman cries looking at the entrance of Aquarius at Augusta port, her arrival in Italy, Europe.

86 migrants rescued during the night by a supply vessel 55 nautical miles from Libyan coast safely transferred onboard of the Aquarius

A father with his little son on the Aquarius deck.

A young man help crew's Aquarius in the hospitality of new migrants, the day after his rescue.

A woman smiles on the deck few minutes after her rescue.

Heidi, Doctors without Borders nurse, smells migrants clothes. Often they are drenched in fuel and in that case they need to be immediately washed.

Augusta port, Italy. Migrants wait for registration sitting on the ground.

Augusta port, Italy. Migrants and refugees wait for registration sitting on the ground. Among them a little girl stands up.

Mathilde, SOS Mediterranee Communication Officer in a rare moment of break, at the gym.