{"id":9139,"date":"2022-06-07T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:05:50","slug":"it-was-time-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/it-was-time-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"“It was Time to go Home”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Brendan Woodhouse, a rescuer with Sea Watch, shares more of his experience rescuing a group of refugees at Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n May 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was time to go home, so the Sea-Watch 3 headed north. We had rescued 211 people, ten were medically evacuated from our ship over the next days. Nine of the survivors had relatives among the 17 who died on boat four. We\u2019d witnessed a pushback and also heard about another boat that we didn\u2019t get to, where there were only four survivors from a boat of over 90 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We looked after the people as best as we could. The medical team worked on the worst cases and as the immediate life threatening cases weretaken away, they were able to focus on the others. Some had really nasty burns from the fuel mixed with salt water, others were so traumatised by what they\u2019d witnessed and been part of and the family members and friends that they had lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their resolve was incredible. It really was. They were all so tightly packed onto the back of the ship and the food that we could give them was very basic. Italy made us wait five days before we were allowed to disembark them and in this time I got to know some of the people, only a little.<\/p>\n\n\n
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