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Bigger, better Open Arms charity vessel delivers first migrant rescue

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ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS UNO — Four times the tonnage of the original Open Arms rescue tug and capable of carrying up to 1,000 people, the Open Arms Uno made its first rescue on Wednesday, stranded 101 in a wooden boat off the Tunisian coast. picked up immigrants.

From a speedboat sailing from a ship run by the Spanish charity Open Arms, the crew yelled at the excited migrants, ``Sit down. I called. Boarding.

A person jumped into the water and tried to approach the speedboat, which was temporarily removed for safety.

"People were showing signs of dehydration. They had been sailing for a day and had already drifted. and they are now safely aboard Open Arms," ​​lifeguard Mauro Di Si told Reuters.

The new Open Arms flagship ship will have a 26-bed hospital. , a fleet of four semi-rigid speed boats, designed to safely carry out mass rescue operations in difficult sea conditions.

Built in Norway in 2000, the ship was donated by Argentinian-Italian filmmaker and philanthropist Enrique Pinheiro and is Europe's largest sea rescue vessel. One.

Since 2014, nearly 25,000 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, according to International Organization for Migration (IOM) data.

Ships patrol the most dangerous migration routes in the central Mediterranean.

The charity's original Open Arms tugboat, which is over 50 years old and has rescued more than 7,300 people at sea since 2017, has delivered food to the Odessa region of Ukraine over the past few months. was used to deliver and evacuate Refugees during the Russian invasion. (Andrei Khalip, edited by Hugh Lawson)