Search and Rescue: What do you carry with you?

03/07/2024

Dilba was rescued by Doctors Without Borders on 5 February 2024 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea on an overcrowded wooden boat in distress with about 130 other people. Mediterranean Sea, February 2024. © Mohamad Cheblak/MSF

Since 2015, Doctors Without Borders has been conducting search and rescue missions in the Central Mediterranean Sea. In May 2021, our team began operating the Geo Barents rescue vessel, which has since saved over 11,300 people. Each rescue carries countless lives, stories, and memories.

People are forced to flee their home and leave everything behind in search of protection and safety. We have been regularly asking survivors and our patients on board a question: What do you carry with you?

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