Govt prolonging boat-disaster survivors' ordeal - Schlein - Politics. 25 survivors are among 359 people aboard the Ocean Viking after being picked up at sea by the search-and-rescue ship run by the SOS Mediterranee NGO.
Ocean Viking has been assigned Ancona, on the Adriatic Coast, as its port of safety, which is some distance from its current location and it will take several days for it to arrive. "To do this to them after what they have been through is inhuman and intolerable, not fitting of a country like Italy," Schlein said.