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The cost of migration: The rescue boats

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the second of three programmes, we’ll hear about the increasing running costs facing charities involved in running search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

Inflated fuel prices, cost of living crises and political interference are all driving the costs of the operation up. So can the boats continue to operate?

Presenter: Frey Lindsay

(Photo: Search and rescue crew onboard the SOS Méditerranée rescue ship The Ocean Viking)

Transcript

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0:00.0

The documentary from the BBC World Service brings the globe to your ears through original documentary storytelling.

0:08.9

Search for The Documentary, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:19.4

You're listening to the Redrafting the Water. You're listening to business daily on the water.

0:24.2

You're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service.

0:27.7

I'm Frey Lindsay, and you're out here with me and the crew of the charity rescue ship,

0:31.9

The Ocean Viking, in the Mediterranean Sea.

0:34.6

Three years ago, do you have a bearing?

0:37.6

Yes, from the ship, bearing two to nine, our starboard side.

0:43.0

It's about two in the morning, and the crew have been alerted to the presence of a small boat

0:46.9

carrying 113 people in severe distress, around 100 miles north of the Libyan coast.

1:07.7

Easy one and four. Easy two, starboard. around 100 miles north of the Libyan coast. The rescue boats head out into the darkness to find that boat. The rescue boats head out into the darkness to find that boat.

1:15.6

As we heard in yesterday's program, those 113 people were rescued from a very uncertain fate and brought on board the Ocean Viking.

1:24.3

I'm really, really happy. Thanks to God. Thanks for ocean Viking. We are really grateful

1:29.7

for your hospitality, for your care, and for everything. In that program, we also heard about the

1:36.0

various prices that people pay to make that journey. People like Muhammad, a young man from Cote d'Ivoire.

1:43.5

First I went to Burkina Faso, then I traveled across the Sahara.

1:47.3

It was very difficult.

1:49.0

We had no water.

1:50.1

People died.

1:51.2

When we got to Libya, we thought we would have opportunities.

1:54.1

But when we found it, it was hell on earth.

1:56.9

I tried to cross, but I was kidnapped by a Libyan militia.

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