Sea-Eye 5

In June 2024, in a joint press release, United4Rescue and Sea-Eye announced that they had purchased the former 23.1-meter-class [de] cruiser Nis Randers, originally operating for the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service, DGzRS, from a private owner for €465,000. The ship was then converted and overhauled to be used for rescue missions in the Mediterranean under the name Sea-Eye 5.^[6]

On completion of the work, the boat was named at a ceremony in Ancona by Sandra Hüller and Omorogbe Peter Obamwonyi, Maritime Crew Manager at Sea-Eye.^[7]

The boat is equipped with a sickbay^[7] and its MMSI is 218049720.^[8][9][10] 

SEA-EYE 5 began Mediterranean rescue operations at the end of October 2024.^[11] In the first two weeks of operation, it is claimed that SEA-EYE 5 saved 175 people.^[12]

In June 2025 it was detained by the Italian authorities at Pozzallo. After rescuing 65 migrants from an overcrowded rubber dinghy, a complex exchange of messages with the port authorities and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Rome finally appeared to permit their disembarkation at Pozzallo, but the boat was then detained. The week before, the vessel Nadir of RESQSHIP had been similarly detained.^[13][14][15]

In late July 2025 Sea-Eye 5 picked up another 31 migrants in two sorties. Two migrants were evacuated to shore in advance, the rest were brought variously (during the first sortie) to Reggio Calabria and (during the second sortie) to Vibo Valentia.^[16][17]