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Interview with Tamino Bohm: Sea Watch's head of airborne operations
Ben Cowles speaks to the man responsible for the remarkable airborne component of the heroic volunteer organisation that rescues refugee boats sinking in the Mediterranean
Tamino Boehm preparing to take to the skies in search of ailing refugee boats

THE Moonbird took off from the airport on the Italian island of Lampedusa on June 25 looking for stranded refugees in the central Mediterranean.

“We were on two missions that day because it was so busy at sea,” says Tamino Bohm, the head of German refugee-rescue organisation Sea Watch’s airborne operations.

“Originally, we were looking for a wooden boat in the Maltese search-and-rescue (SAR) zone,” the 28-year-old German says.

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