Commander Jose Maria Fernandez de la Puente Millan (left) meets with helicopter pilots in the CEICE control centre, shortly before embarking on a multiple rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, on...

Two men who have been identified as being of 'special interest' are disembarked from the Spanish navy vessel Cantabria, which is operating a migrant's resucue mission in the Mediterranean Sea, accompa...

Migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa, on board the Spanish navy vessel the Cantabria as it sails into Palermo. The migrants were rescued from a small boat as it attempted the dangerous crossing of...

Migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa, on board the Spanish navy vessel the Cantabria as it sails into Palermo. The migrants were rescued from a small boat as it attempted the dangerous crossing of...

A Spanish navy officer, onboard the Spanish navy vessel the Cantabria, gives instructions to his crew shortly before starting an operation to rescue migrants from multiple boats drifting in the Medite...

A member of the Spanish military, on the Spanish navy vessel the Cantabria, comforts a Nigerian woman who was one of a group of migrants rescued from a boat carrying migrants on the dangerous crossing...

A member of the Spanish military, on the Spanish navy vessel the Cantabria, talks with two Nigerian women who were rescued from a boat carrying migrants on the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray during a 'Tashlich' ritual beside the Mediterranean Sea. 'Tashlich' ('to cast away') is a ritual where believers go to a flowing body of water and symbolically 'throw aw...

A drifting inflatable raft, carrying 67 migrants, is rescued by Medicins Sans Frontiere (MSF) and the crew of the Bourbon Argos in the Mediterranean sea, 25 nautical miles from Libya.

Wego Foka Romeo, 25, from Cameroon, photographed in international waters between Libya and Italy in the Mediterranean Sea.'When I was 12 I Iost my mother. I stopped school and started to work on a far...

A Medicins Sans Frontiere (MSF) team on board a rib approach an inflatable raft packed with migrants, drifiting in the Mediterranean Sea, 25 nautical miles from Libya. The MSF team distributed life ja...

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man passes a couple enjoying the sun outside their caravan as religious Jews gather for a 'Tashlich' ritual beside the Mediterranean Sea. 'Tashlich' ('to cast away') is a rit...

Omayma, 21, from Morocco, photographed in international waters mid-way between Libya and Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea. 'I had a lot of problems with my father, as did all my siblings. He was a dru...

Charlie John, 29, from Nigeria, photographed in the Search and Rescue zone approximately 25 nautical miles from the coast of Libya, in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea.'There was no work...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children pray and throw a stone into the sea during a 'Tashlich' ritual beside the Mediterranean Sea. 'Tashlich' ('to cast away') is a ritual where believers go to a flowing body...