The private sea rescuers of the Berlin-based organization Sea-Watch have reached their mission area in the Mediterranean with the ship "Sea-Watch 3".
The crew is on the lookout for people in distress off the Libyan coast, Sea-Watch wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
The ship last brought more than 250 rescued boat migrants to the port of the Sicilian city of Trapani in early August.
Rome - The crew later headed for the Spanish city of Burriana to prepare the ship for the upcoming mission.
Private organizations keep breaking out into the central Mediterranean to save migrants from drowning.
People get into boats on the coasts of North Africa to reach the EU, for example because they are looking for protection or hoping for a better life there.
On the dangerous crossing they get into distress and people die.
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In Italy, which is often the target of the people, the operations of private organizations are sometimes politically controversial.
According to figures from the Interior Ministry, as of Friday, more than 49,000 migrants have arrived in boats this year.
In the same period last year there were almost 26,000.
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