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Bobbie Johnson in Ghost BoatOct 12, 20152 min read

Update: October 12

Intelligence agency reports, boat spotting

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Kirk PettingaOct 13, 20151 min read

Building a Log of Refugee Boats in the Mediterranean

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Collecting Vessel History

I’ve put in a request at https://www.vesselfinder.com/historical-ais-data to get a historical log of vessels operating in the area (pictured below) between the 12:01am on June 28 to midnight on June 29, 2014.

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Ghost Boat in Ghost BoatJan 272 min read

“On each gravestone we write the person’s name, the place where their body was found, and the forensic number.”

Abdulrazak Ramadan is the director of the morgue of Tripoli Central Hospital.

Ghost Boat in Ghost BoatJan 192 min read

“Every Case Is Different From The Other”

Two new pieces of evidence for the Ghost Boat files.

As we look at how to trace the whereabouts of the Ghost Boat—where it may have been, who would have been responsible for rescuing those on board…

Ghost Boat in Ghost BoatJan 182 min read

Interviewing Malik Marsit of the Libyan Red Crescent

This post is a piece of evidence in our open investigation into the disappearance of a group of at least 243 refugees in 2014. We’re asking for your help to find them: Please take the time leave notes, responses, highlight important…

Ross WhitefordOct 13, 2015

the MV Filomena Prima

Update: October 13

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I found an image and details of this vessel here:

https://goo.gl/0nfU9L

Photo (and other similar images on Google) are not clear enough to identify the name on the hull, but there’s several images of what appears to be the same boat on various sites, which increases my confidence.

Ghost Boat in Ghost BoatOct 9, 20152 min read

Update: October 9

How 10 minutes of your time could help move us forward.

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Devansh MehtaNov 17, 20153 min read

As Bobbie Johnson referenced in this story, Kazi and me were lucky to have been part of a live workshop where we managed to zero in on 40 boats that would be the most likely to have come into contact with the Ghost Boat.

We made this selection looking at all the boats docked in Zuwalah or Tripoli on the night of the storm on…

Ross WhitefordOct 24, 20154 min read

Ghost Boat: An eerily similar story from 2011

During my research on how ocean currents may have altered the course of the Ghost Boat, I stumbled upon a similar investigation into the passage of refugees across the Mediterranean Sea:

The Forensic Oceanography project was…

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Natalia OssowskaOct 17, 20151 min read

Update: October 16

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A bit more informations about detention centres in Tunisia from the OHCHR report (2013): “Although the Government denies the existence of immigration detention centres in Tunisia, migrants who are found to be on the territory irregularly are sometimes sent to centres d’accueil et d’orientation — essentially holding facilities from which migrants are…