Ed Taylor, Diary of a Rescue Worker on the Mediterranean Sea, newsdeeply.com, 04/21/ 2017

In the past week, almost 9,000 people were rescued on the Mediterranean Sea. Ed Taylor, Medecins Sans Frontieres’ project coordinator onboard the MV Aquarius, relives one such rescue on March 26, 2017. The search and rescue vessel, which has a 21-person crew and is run jointly by MSF and French charity SOS Mediterranee, rescued 515 people in five boats on one day last week. Amid a surge in refugee boats from North Africa, a humanitarian worker describes one grueling day onboard a search and r..