OPERATION - 25 December 2025 - 5 January 2026

10:40 Ocean Viking departs from Syracuse.

12:20 Ocean Viking is in copy of an email from Alarm Phone about people rescued by vessel Maridive 703 and in urgent need of evacuation.

16:20 Ocean Viking emails MRCC Malta to inform about the alert received from Alarm Phone. Officer busy, asking to send email instead.

16:31 Ocean Viking emails MRCC Malta to inform about the alert received by Alarm Phone.

20:14 Ocean Viking calls MRCC Malta twice to inform about the alert received from Alarm Phone. MRCC Malta hangs up then doesn’t answer.

09:13 Ocean Viking calls MRCC Malta to inform about the alert received from Alarm Phone. Officer online says will check.

09:32 Ocean Viking receives an email from vessel Edda Flora about a dingy with 50-60 people spotted and request to get in touch.

We have just discovered a dingy with 50-60 PoB in position N 33 25,9 / E 012 41,7

Can you call me or give me a phonenumber so I can reach you?

M/V Edda Flora

09:42 Ocean Viking overhears a distress call on channel 16 from vessel Maridive 703 requesting assistance.

09:57 Ocean Viking calls Italian MRCC for coordination. MRCC asks to contact competent authorities.

10:05 Ocean Viking calls Tunisia MRCC to ask for greenlight to assist on Maridive 703 case. Greenlight granted for evacuation.

11:30 All RHIBS are launched.

12:09 RHIBS share assessment to the bridge about condition of survivors on Maridive 703. Rescue starts.

Latitude: 34.23
Longitude: 11.53

12:29 Ocean Viking emails JRCC Tripoli regarding an distress case shared by vessel Edda Flora, and offering assistance.

12:43 All survivors are successfully transshipped onto Ocean Viking.

16:19 Ocean Viking calls Italian MRCC to request delay to Place of Safety to assist Edda Flora distress case. Request granted.

20:16 After overhearing Libyan Coast Guard patrol vessel on Channel 16 and spotting a vessel on radar, Ocean Viking calls them on VHF. LCG orders Ocean Viking to go North.

20:34 Ocean Viking emails JRCC Tripoli (Italy MRCC and MRCC Malta in copy) to announce the bridge was ordered to go North and that it is constrained to abandon the rescue but remains available for assistance if needed.

22:35 Ocean Viking emails Italian MRCC to explain the crew was constrained to abandon the rescue while vessel Edda Flora was still requesting urgent help for the people in distress.

This vessel wishes to point out that it has been placed in a situation obliging it to contravene international maritime law and to fail in the Master’s duty to render assistance to persons in distress at sea, as stipulated under UNCLOS Article 98 and SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 33. MV Ocean Viking has been informed that the persons in distress have not been rescued and brought to a place of safety, implying a continued violation of the Master’s duty to render assistance.

MV Ocean Viking is currently approximately 28 Nautical Miles from the distress case and remains able to provide assistance.

09:33 Ocean Viking is in copy of an email from Alarm Phone about 30 people in distress onboard a deflating rubber boat.

09:39 Ocean Viking calls Italian MRCC to request delay to Place of Safety. Request granted.

16:37 Ocean Viking emails MRCC Malta (Italian MRCC in copy) to inform about start of search pattern for the distress case.

18:20 Ocean Viking is in copy of an email from Alarm Phone stating the people in distress are taking water and need urgent assistance. No updated location.

18:47 Ocean Viking receives a call from Italian MRCC stating the distress case has been rescued by Guardia di Finanza and assistance no longer needed. Instruction to proceed to Place of Safety.

07:00 Ocean Viking arrives in Savona.

09:09 Disembarkation is complete.