The sky and the water are both the colour of the night, inseparable from one another.
With the exception of the faint glimmer of a Libyan gas platform in the far distance, the horizon had all but disappeared.
Onboard the Ocean Viking search-and-rescue vessel, the bridge had five hours earlier been alerted of numerous people on a boat somewhere in the Libyan search-and-rescue region.
Details were scant, and - with the Libyan coast guard making record interceptions - the chanc...
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Already a member? Login hereNikolaj Nielsen, an EUobserver journalist, is embedded on the Ocean Viking for the coming weeks, reporting exclusively from the boat on the Mediterranean migration route.
Nikolaj Nielsen, an EUobserver journalist, is embedded on the Ocean Viking for the coming weeks, reporting exclusively from the boat on the Mediterranean migration route.