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  <title>Episode 70: They were left stranded on a gas rig</title>
  <description>In this episode, Sea-Watch's search-and-rescue coordinator Hendrik tells us about the rescue of 32 people stranded on a gas rig in central Mediterranean in March. &amp;amp;nbsp; ---Get in touch--- &amp;amp;nbsp; Twitter: @FleetCivil &amp;amp;nbsp; Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social &amp;amp;nbsp; Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social &amp;amp;nbsp; Instagram: thecivilfleet &amp;amp;nbsp; info@civilfleet.com &amp;amp;nbsp; civilfleet.com  --- Show notes --- &amp;amp;nbsp; For more on Sea-Watch, visit: sea-watch.org/en &amp;amp;nbsp; Follow Sea-Watch on BlueSky: @en.sea-watch.org  Instagram: seawatchcrew &amp;amp;nbsp; Also, check out episodes 65, 43, 22, 7 and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Sea-Watch. &amp;amp;nbsp; For more on the Miskar Platform rescue, see here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sea-watch-rescues-32-people-left-stranded-on-a-mediterranean-gas-rig/&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; You can watch the 2020 YouTube interview I did with Hendrik and Dariush here:&amp;amp;nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kS3OX922Vs&amp;amp;amp;t=1874s&amp;amp;amp;ab_channel=BenCowles (Check out my Covid beard!) &amp;amp;nbsp; For more about the Iuventa, check out episodes: 54, 36, 24, and 2.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; You can read more about the Iuventa, here:&amp;amp;nbsp;https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Iuventa/ &amp;amp;nbsp; Hendrik mentions the RNLI – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a lifeboat charity based in the UK.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; He also mentions the Humanitarian Pilot Project. You can find out more about them here:&amp;amp;nbsp;https://www.hpi.swiss &amp;amp;nbsp; The Greek coastguards are fascists? • Read this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0vv717yvpeo, this:  https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/masked-men-attack-refugee-dinghy-off-the-coast-of-greece-as-coastguard-fails-to-launch-rescue/ this  https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/close-to-10000-people-pushed-back-to-turkey-by-greek-coastguard-and-frontex-activists-allege/ and Google Greek Coastguards.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; • See here:&amp;amp;nbsp;https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Greece/ &amp;amp;nbsp; • Check out episodes 68, 60, 56, 53, 52, 50, 41, 35, 28, 26, 24, 23, 22, 18, 12, 9, and 4&amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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