We’re heads down as the team is out reporting (one word of advice: Tunisian bureaucracy is astonishing) and interviewing survivors of other boat incidents. Here’s what we’ve learned in the last 24 hours.

This Just In

Using documents we posted yesterday, Ross Whiteford did a great job of identifying Mediterranean-based maritime reports from the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Many of them occurred off the coast of Tripoli, and involved boats in distress.

He also made a very good observation: a vessel named in one report was operating near the coast of Tunisia between June and October of last year. After further research, he discovered that the boat in question — the MV Filomena Prima — is an Italian-registered fishing vessel currently off the coast of Italy. He then asked: is it possible to identify the crew or boat operator?

After wondering if a UNHCR photo showed Segen and Abi, dangersquirrel identified two Italian photojournalists who were covering the Mediterranean refugee crisis in June 2014. Could they share photos from the weekend of June 27? We’ve sent messages their way.

Further reading

British journalist and documentary maker Christian Payne (AKA Documentally) went to visit “The Jungle” — the migrant camp in Calais where refugees often try to get to the U.K. from France. His account is fascinating, engaging, humanizing.

Morsels

judy olsen wrote that tracking the refugees’ cell phones — though possibly stolen — could help provide new information. She asks: “Could someone with a good knowledge of Android phones maybe check into this?” Along these lines, our own Bobbie Johnson notes that Segen’s phone call to Yafet was likely done on a smuggler’s phone and not her own.

Episode two should drop tomorrow.

Onward.

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