Press: ‘Rare photographs document the rescue of hundreds of migrants’ (by MOAS) – Foreign Policy Magazine

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‘For the media, it can be a difficult story to cover. Drownings in remote ocean locales are not places that reporters and photographers can reach easily or rapidly. All too often, the boats they seek to find are lost to the depths before anyone can arrive. So the images the world sees of the migrant crisis are usually those of survivors being led ashore from rescue vessels. Rarely do we see the moment rescuers reach migrants in open waters.

That’s what makes these images so remarkable…’  Read the full feature in Foreign Policy here.

All images © MOAS_EU/Jason Florio, 2015. All rights reserved.

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Related Post: Youtube – Hazardous night rescue of migrants, by MOAS

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Press: Vice News – transferring boat migrants, rescued by MOAS, to HMS Bulwark – Images by Jason Florio

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“Some of them were a little bit nervous when they saw the HMS Bulwark show up on the horizon,” Florio said from aboard the organization’s 130-foot ship, the Phoenix. “But I think they were just thankful they weren’t floating around in a rubber dinghy anymore.”  Jason Florio. MOAS, 2015 migrant rescues, on-board photographer, talks about transferring  migrants, rescued by MOAS, to HMS Bulwark. Read more, and see more of Florio’s images,  on the VICE News website.

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Photo of the Day: Photographer for Hire – Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa

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Hand painted sign, advertising a for-hire photographer, on the streets of Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa

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Youtube: Night rescue of boat migrants, off the Libyan coast © MOAS_eu/Jason Florio

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Published on May 9, 2015

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Three migrant women intoxicated by fuel fumes are taken onto the merchant vessel Orient Green by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) search and rescue team.

They were aboard a rubber dinghy carrying 104 migrants (predominantly Gambians, from West Africa) who were later also all transferred onto the Orient Green by MOAS after being given life jackets and water.

They were not transferred onto the Phoenix because the vessel already had 369 people on board and was therefore already overloaded.

MOAS founder Christopher Catrambone was the lead rescuer on this mission.

This rescue took place on May 3rd 2015. Watch footage here

For more  of Jason Florio’s rescue footage – visit our Film & Radio page

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