Illegal Migration : Rescue Ship En Route

After several months of wrangling between some European countries, a new search and rescue ship has been sent to the coast of Libya. The Norwegian ship Ocean Viking left the French port of Marseille on August 4, 2019 to focus its activities off the coast of Libya which is a major transit point for many immigrants. 
The ship deployed by the humanitarian group, SOS Mediterranée is replacing the group’s previous ship, Aquarius, which ceased to operate last year after it was banned from landing migrants in several European ports. 
Funded in partnership with Doctors Without Borders, the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking has a crew of nine, a search, rescue and medical team. After three years of operations during which it rescued some 30,000 migrants, the Aquarius was forced to cease operations in December 2018 because of what the group said was obstruction by some European countries.
With negotiations to agree on the number of migrants each European country can receive showing no sign of progress, the head of SOS Medierranée Sophie Beau told the BBC that because no rescue vessels were operating in the Mediterranean, the humanitarian groups had no choice but to step in “There is basically a vacuum in the Mediterranean. So we as civilians, we do whatever we can where there is major failure of states. The international maritime law backs our stance that of saving life outweighs political considerations&rdquo...