Diary of a rescue: Marc Gasol’s mission to the Mediterranean

#TIA – This story about one effort to save migrant lives fails to make up for all the other efforts never attempted.

“SOMEWHERE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA — Where are they?

As dusk turns to dark and the stars begin to show and a bad moon rises in the mid-July sky, where are the immigrants sighted earlier in the day in a rubber raft puttering due north?

This is the question Marc Gasol asks as he stares at a sea more than 3.5 times the size of Texas. He has come to these waters and to this search-and-rescue ship in the middle of the Mediterranean to see for himself, to help if he can, to understand. He’s thinking about the people on that raft, thinking how terrified they must be, how hungry and thirsty they are, how utterly desperate they must be.”

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