The TROTAMAR III crew rescued an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone at 3:20 a.m. on December 11, after she set sail with others on a metal boat fromTunisian coast. The girl kept herself afloat using two tire tubes alone in the Mediterranean Sea and a life jacket following a shipwreck that claimed an estimated 44 lives. “It was an incredible coincidence that we heard the child’s voice despite the engine running,” said Skipper Matthias Wiedenlübbert of the German rescue organization CompassCollective. The crew discovered her while responding to a different emergency call. The metal boat departed from Sfax, Tunisia, carrying … Continue reading 11-Year-Old Survives Alone Three Days at Sea, Adrift After Shipwreck in Mediterranean Leaves 44 Missing Near Lampedusa