Meet the man who rescued 600 migrants on his boat, and thinks others could do the same
This huge human toll is what led German businessmen #Harald_Höppner and #Matthias_Kuhnt to buy a ship, #Sea_Watch, to patrol the Mediterranean on their own, as WorldViews reported last year.
"Sea-Watch" rettet Hunderte Flüchtlinge
Seit Juni ist das erste privat finanzierte Schiff zur Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer unterwegs: die „Sea-Watch“. Ingo Werth berichtet über seine Arbeit auf dem Fischkutter.
▻https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal/Sea-Watch-rettet-Hunderte-Fluechtlinge,hamj42188.html
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/31/two-german-businessmen-are-on-a-daring-mission-to-save-migrants-from
Since October, the two businessmen have invested a total of $162,000 in a 21-meter-long ocean-going ship. Some of the money might be refinanced through donations collected on a Web site -> ▻http://sea-watch.org/das-projekt/das-schiff set up for the initiative.
