An overloaded boat, packed with dreams: Hundreds of migrants plucked from a hazardous journey across the Mediterranean

Three teams, including Save the Children, work to transport 412 migrants from a smuggler’s boat to rescue ships off the coast of northern Libya. The migrants, who came from 13 countries, were then transported to Sicily. In the background is the rescue ship Minden.

The migrants came from 13 countries. A student from Bangladesh, a Syrian doctor, a Moroccan barista. Most were from Eritrea and Somalia. And they were stranded on a blue wooden boat, trying to cross from Libya to Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske and photographer Carolyn Cole spent nine days on the ship Vos Hestia as the crew and staff of Save the Children searched for and rescued 412 migrants on this boat.

KJ

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