Carola Rackete

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Carola Rackete (born 1988 in Preetz, Germany) is a German ship captain who works for the German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch. In June of 2019, she has been arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the port of Lampedusa, Italy.

Early life

Rackete was born in Preetz, near Kiel. She graduated high school in 2007, then studied at Maritime School at Jade University of Applied Sciences in Elsfleth, earning a Bachelor of Science in Nautical Science and Maritime Transport in 2011. The B.Sc. in Nautical science at Jade University meets the written examination requirement for the captain's licence of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany, which is later acquired on the basis of professional experience only

In 2018 she earned a master's in Conservation Management from Edge Hill University in England.

Career

After her degree at Jade University, she has been navigation officer for two years in scientific expeditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

For a short period of time, she worked as a conservation volunteer within the Kronotsky Nature Reserve in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Later, Carola worked as safety officer for Silversea Cruises, a ultra-luxury cruise line headquartered in Monaco. She later worked as second-officer on ships owned by Greenpeace and the British Antarctic Survey.

As of June 2019 Rackete captained the Sea-Watch 3, a vessel of 645 of gross tonnage, which flies a Dutch flag.

Sea-Watch 3 incident of June 2019

On 12 June, the ship picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. Sea Watch 3 rejected an offer to dock at Tripoli, which is considered unsafe by humanitarian organizations, and headed toward Lampedusa. According to a report by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and NGOs this was the nearest safe harbor per maritime law. On 14 June, Italy closed its ports to migrant rescue ships. Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini refused to allow the ship to dock until other European nations had agreed to take the migrants. Ten of the migrants, including children, pregnant women, and those who were ill, were allowed to disembark. On 28 June, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal offered to take the migrants.

On 29 June, without authorization, Rackete decided to dock. The motivation for this was that according to her the passengers were exhausted. Rackete was arrested by the Italian authorities after docking. As of 29 June, it wasn't clear whether the migrants would be allowed to disembark. Salvini has said he wants the nations who have offered to take the refugees to provide "numbers, timelines and means" before he would allow the migrants off the ship.

Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini accused Rackete of trying to sink an Italian patrol boat that was attempting to intercept her, calling the incident an act of war and demanding the Netherlands intervene. Italian media, who have called Salvini "capitano", called the incident "the capitana against the capitano."

Italian politician Riccardo Magi defended Rackete, saying "she decided based on a state of necessity that I saw". On 2 July, Rackete was released from house arrest after a court ruling that she had broken no laws and acted to protect passengers' safety.

See also

• Pia Klemp

References

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