 Our next lecture has certain risks. It has more risks actually. It's called planes and ships and saving lives. It's how soft and hardware can actually play a key role in saving lives at sea and why Frontex doesn't like it. It's done by Trollafix, Nick and Ruben. And what is following is actually a talk that's once again about a very serious war on ethical dilemma. Because the historical record is here. Because the historical record reached the EU border this year. One of five people who left Libya with the boat died in September in the Mediterranean. And the main reason for this increase is the crackdown of the European authorities. The technical means of communication of course do play a key role in the efforts to coordinate rescues. The technical details are of course very important when it comes to rescue coordination. I'm going to explain to you is that a civil society to run Maritime Rescue Coordination Center could help to reduce the deaths. And that's why a civil rescue site helps reduce the deaths. So give them a warmer applause. They will present us some potential solutions to fulfill this ambition. Thank you all. And hello from us from the Übersetzer Kabine. We now translate the talk Plains and Ships and Saving Lives for you. We are today StrangeGlyph, Catnet and Aphrona. I'm Ruben. This is Nick. And this is Trollafix. We will talk about airplanes and ships and rescue. And how this all comes together with the people who have IT competence and hardware competence and why we really need this right now. I personally am not really a nerd and I have no idea about computers. That's why I have my house nerds like Nick, who are all for me. And I will tell you why and give you a short introduction to the situation on the Mediterranean Sea. And then we will talk about these people who are much more competent about the technology, how this works with technology. Okay, what is the problem? So people have sea emergency on the sea. Here is a picture of the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird and that is a boat that is just going down and you can see that it takes water out of there. And we can now have that in the north of a Lybian city. And shortly before the European border, people just start trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea with the boat because there is no safe and legal alternative. And then the result is such a situation. And if our contract is somehow a bit in line with each other, then it could be that we are also just the ship in operation and that means what would you expect to happen? Well, if you are white, then and you have a European passport and you have a hundred meters ahead of the European coast, then that will happen. But if you don't have a European passport and if you try to cross the Mediterranean Sea, then maybe that will happen to you. Because basically the reaction of the European Union for such emergency signals looks like that, so there is simply nothing. And what we thought about a few years ago was that the death rate has increased so much in the Mediterranean Sea. But what can we do when people try to cross the Mediterranean Sea and that in some old fishing boats that are absolutely not seawater? So we had the idea. There was a solution for it. So we also bought an old and unseawater ship. And then we converted that into the Sea Watch 1, which was the first rescue ship that came from Germany to the Mediterranean Sea. But we called it Sea Watch for a reason, because we don't call it the Sea Rescue, because it is about that the European states have created the problem by closing their borders and preventing people from entering wars and terror refugees, for example in Libya. So we thought that what we still have to do is go there and have to look there. We have to look at it. And we have to be sure that no one will sink. And that's what we did in principle. We sailed down the ship and saw pretty many people who were in need. And we had to help them. So at first we were pretty overwhelmed, but then what happened? And that was really fantastic. It was that the civil society actually reacted. So a lot of new government organizations were created and sent ships to the Mediterranean Sea. And I was really impressed by that. Because if you think about the EU, with all that they have, so ships, planes, money and so on, we have never expected that any hipster in their 20s, the best people are to save people in the Mediterranean Sea. It wasn't just the youth, it was also, for example, Lifeline or Dr. One Grenzen or the people from Sea Eye who sent ships. So at least you have a whole civil rescue fleet that took care of these rescue missions on the Mediterranean Sea. And that went pretty well. So the civil rescue fleet was able to save thousands and thousands of people on the Mediterranean Sea. And that worked pretty well. Because the coordination with the coordination center in Rome worked pretty well. Because through this time, at least on the European side, a few people saw that if people in the sea are in need, then we should save them. A very normal thing. So you can imagine that someone has something against it, so against saving people's lives. So you probably know the answer already. There are these guys. So the guy was pretty well known in the media last year, in this year because he blocked civil rescue ships, but it started a bit earlier. The guy, maybe you know him too, it was the first one who started with a large criminalization campaign against the civil rescue company. So that was in 2016, beginning of 2017. Many rumors were spread about the non-governmental organization in the sea, what they do, maybe they do cooperation with the smugglers and so on. Then there were a few apologies that were pretty stupid, for example the apologies that we would give light signals to the Libyan coast. I mean, we have here NERDS, you are very good in mathematics and geometry. What do you think about this argument, that there is the possibility to send light at all, if you are far beyond the territory of Libya? So just from a geometry perspective, it is not possible to give such a kind of light signal. But in fact, this effort was widely spread and of course it helped. There are other nations that have been given support and another apology that I would like to say that we would not destroy the ships that we would find. So the apology was that if we find such boats, we have to sink them because then they cannot be used again by some smugglers. And the apology was that we would not destroy them. I have the proof that we are doing it. And that's what it looks like when we destroy a boat. So basically we have a lot of these apologies and what do you think about it, that we have to add that we need a lot of NERDS to help us to carry out our mission? Why can NERDS help us to make our mission safer? So why? It is because when we are able to document what we are doing at Hoare See and where we are, when we have a video of what happens on the lake, then we can prove that these apologies are wrong. And that's why it is very important to have hardware technology on all ships. But the story goes on because these apologies were very effective and that's how we came up with a situation where the Juventa was the first ship that was confiscated. It is still confiscated. It was already confiscated in 2017. It is unfortunately not able to carry out its job anymore. Okay, we thought, okay, we will continue, but then this happened and a lot of other ships were confiscated this year. In the case of the Lifeline, it was very prominent in the media. The Lifeline was confiscated in Malta, so it was much more difficult for the civil organisations to do something. And there was also a moment when no single civil rescue ship was very popular in the Mediterranean, and of course it had consequences. So what happened basically? The people came again. I mean, there was this argument, the pull factor, the argument that the European government started was put up, that only because we are there as a civil rescue ship, the people come across the Mediterranean Sea and then they are rescued by the NGOs, so from us. And then they come to Europe. But then there was no non-governmental organisation. The people have always come, but no one was there to rescue people. And the fact, this fact is, we saw a pretty dramatic impact this year in September because before that we had this number. An idea, what does this number mean? This number is basically the death rate. That is basically the death rate, which we briefly removed before the NGOs from the area. So it was one of 44. That means if one of 44 tries to cross the Mediterranean Sea, he would drink. When we lost the last rescue ship, the Aquarius, when the flag was stolen, the number rose to one in five. So in September no single civil rescue ship was there, because there was one of five who tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea, thinking about what that means. If one of five tries to cross the Mediterranean Sea, it would mean that every fifth tries to cross the Mediterranean Sea. And that's why we always try to operate the sea. These pictures were taken last week, because even if sometimes there are really difficult times on the sea, we are in the position, or at least we were in the position to get at least a little bit back into the circulation and get our planes back, which we use for air surveillance. This picture was taken a year ago, but the plane took half an hour from the Lampedusa to cross the Mediterranean Sea. And that has led us to the situation where we are able to react. And on Christmas, or on the weekend before Christmas, the first rescue has been carried out again by civil rescue organizations for months. By the way, these people are still on the sea watch. But actually we are in the position to operate. And that, although in the last few weeks we have been under a lot of stress, because coordination is pretty difficult. We have many groups involved in this mission. We have a complicated situation on the sea, which is sometimes not easy to understand what's going on. So communication is very important. So what can we do to not let the situation sink into chaos, how we can see it on the picture. We need you, because here hardware and software really play a decisive role to make our operation a lot more efficient. So let's start with the hardware. Okay, so if you have a ship in the middle of the sea, hundreds of kilometers away from the next coast, then you can reach this ship with mobile phones. So the first thing you do is satellite communication to make our operations much more efficient and to make our operations much more efficient. And if it works, we will see it in a live call if it works. And the other part of the hardware components is that we need voice recording systems and voice recordings to prove what is actually happening on the sea. And we need you, because that's something I can't do. Then there's something else. This is an MSAT-3 thing. This is a basic satellite communication system to communicate with ships on the sea. And with this we can reach other ships than our own. Not only rescue ships, but also trade ships or other ships that simply don't exist. We can contact them all. And why this is important and why we need you to solve some problems with this DOS technology that Nick will tell you soon. Last but not least, what we also want to establish and that's pretty important is a civil rescue coordination system. And when everything was still good, the rescue system was in Rome and when they found out that there was an emergency, they talked to the rescue staff and they coordinated everything and they had it all on screen. And they told us where we were going and what we had to do. And so we have to do it ourselves. We have to do it ourselves. And so we have to do it ourselves. And that's why we think that we can't use anything anymore. That's a chart where we can plot all the distress cases, where we can coordinate our own... And that's why we have a map here where we can show the emergencies and how to rescue people. And one way is to save people's lives and to protect them from what we need on the technical side. This comes into place again because this is very old technology and we need to... We'll get back to it again because it's old technology and we want to combine it with new technology. That's basically the task we're going to talk about. And that's the task we want to talk about. To get some more details about the technical solution. Hello. I want to give you a short introduction. I would like to be the ship system administrator. I just wanted to tell you how it is to work as a ship system administrator. I was on the Lifeline in September and I took the entire ship network as a whole. The ship was built in 1968. In 2015 it was bought by Seawater. In 2015 it was bought by Seawater and in 2017 it was moved to Lifeline. And as you can imagine in the last 50 years a lot of mechanics, engineers and technicians were on the ship for the last two years and they upgraded it. This feels like maintaining a legacy software project. And when you feel like you're maintaining a legacy software project. We have our own generator on the ship and in general it's not very reliable as it would be on land. I'm going to talk about the sensors and data providers you're looking for on board. There's something like a compass which is basically what you're looking for on the ship. There's something like a compass which shows the 3D orientation of the ship in the waves. We have a GPS receiver to determine our current position and we have AIS sender. AIS is the automatic information system. AIS is the automatic information system which sends out the ship's name, the current position, and that's also used to prevent collisions. Then we have weather data. They're usually called online. And we have LTE and Iridium uplink. And many of these devices need to be interconnected. So the autopilot, for example, needs access. And when the autopilot needs compass and GPS information, the radios need AIS. So we have a lot of different devices. And that's all connected with AIS 202 systems or with canvases. And we have more of them on the ship and that's all connected. Then we have a office on the ship. We have a printer, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, many Linux laptops. And then we have video cameras and audio voice recordings. So we need that all the time to keep our eyes on the ship. That's why we need to record everything all the time. All of the computers on the live-line are now provisioned with Ansible. And all of the computers on the live-line are now provisioned with Ansible. For example, if the ship's bridge computer with the navigation broken, we can take it from the media team and provision it all the time. And Ansible is still a bit of a documentary and also helps the crew to get there in three weeks. Documentation is extremely important. If you build something without documenting it, then it doesn't exist. And especially on the ship, it can be extremely dangerous. In such a life threatening situation, if you need the handbook of a broken device and you don't have internet, then it can be very dangerous. Here you see our shelf for all the documentation. Everything is ordered by letter and everything is alphabetically organized. And everything can be found because everything is on board. And of course we have label printers and if you have too many cables, you want to know which cable you're taking. And that's not a big deal, but it's everywhere where you find the place. And you have to think about it when you're always there, where it belongs, so you don't look for the things all the time. And if you wake up the ship's engineer because you need to access the compartment below his bed, it's kind of unpleasant if you have to wake up the mechanic to get to the compartment under his bed and then there's nothing you need. So that you can imagine the best, I'm going to show you a short video. Let's see. Okay, here. And here you can see under the benches some different components. German. For example, a second test-out autopilot as well as some original packaging with all kinds of cream cream as well as two batteries for the USB so if you want to exchange them. And here are several antennas for the most of them with end cover, glow lamps and other like-wax as well as the spare IP cameras. I'll show you in the next video. Okay. When I started to make videos for documentation purposes, I also noticed that it's not particularly pleasant to do that. And I can show them around and they can immediately ask questions. So I took another video. I made another video that we'll see right now. Here is the Furuno radar system, at least the display unit. The whole thing is switched on here with the switch. As I said, it's currently still defective. Exactly. After that, it takes three minutes to warm up and then you can start with the STBI with the TX switch. And then the antenna starts to rotate. The opposite of this device is over here. This is the remote processing unit that is basically connected with a DVI cable and various other components. This thick cable that goes out here is also the one that leads to the mast. Similar to all these radio devices and so on. And also the two in front, channel 12 is the port, channel 16 is the emergency channel. Also these antennas lead to the mast. And that's why we're going to take this cable tree off. Here it goes in. Everything up here in this wood coating is removable. It leads to the devices here. So there's also the laptop that for example... Yeah, okay. That's it. That's it so far. Recording in German, I'm going to... I'm going to briefly summarize it because the videos were in German and what went on here. And also basically... I showed you the bridge and in the rest of the videos I showed you how the cables are and so on. Last but not least, I'd like to make a project that I did with Daniel. We have the problem that the ship has a lot of ups and downs and we wanted to find the best one. And there's a reason why we didn't use it. And there's a reason why we didn't use the best one. And you can... We can look at the media CCC. We have three ups and downs. The first one is LTI. Everyone and everyone has it in their cell phone. It's very fast, but it has limited traffic and it only goes near the coast. And then we have a second one. It's satellite-based and it's a bit slower and you can mostly use it but not always. So sometimes there are limitations and problems here. And on high sea we lose the connection. And then we have radio which is also satellite-based and we only have a normal antenna. And that works mostly but unfortunately it's more expensive. And 3 euros per minute and 6 per megabyte. So we have this one. Here. Here we have the setup. Here we have an APU board with an LTI modem. We showed that here. And we have an embedded Linux system. And this is a Linux operation system for embedded systems. And we have also wire guard tunnels set up. And then the uplink to be used is... And the uplink is determined with OLSA. The protocol. And maybe Cantitas from Flyfall. They also used it. If VZ and LTE if there is LTE and VZ then we will automatically use the best of the two. The setup worked pretty well but actually in the last months the uplink the uplink connection was much better. Hello, I'm Nick. As I said, I work with SeaWatch. We had already talked for two years where we talked about the search and rescue application. That's an application where we have established many NGOs working on this area in the Mediterranean. And we have a GES system developed to track the ships and to connect. The problem we have at the moment is that we have a few ships in the rescue zone. But we have no rescue coordination center that coordinates these cases. So what we want to do is all the ships that are already there are already there. If people start from Libya right now then they probably won't call the Italian rescue site because they will probably give this information to the Libyans. But they will usually call free NGOs and they try to take care of these cases without hurting human rights. And they open the ships without informing the coast guards. So a rescue site has a list of cases and a list of ships. And these rescue sites have foreign information and collect evidence. With all the devices we have all our ships are there was a rescue of the Libyan coast guard where a sea watch was also involved by the Libyan coast guard and about 30 people died. And the first apology of the Libyan coast guard was that we were in their water. And we can quickly show that we were not in their water. And that's really important. And we will go on to other organizations, for example foreign architecture that will continue to work with it and show it nicely. And we will continue to deal with it. What we are doing right now is we want to take this application and we want to make a land-sea-organization software out of it. We will now have these cases that were more emergency cases especially in the last months. And Italy no longer feels responsible for these ships. We had the situation that commercial ships actually should save these people and then they couldn't leave so quickly. And they couldn't travel to Italy anymore. There was one ship that had about 80 migrants dead. And common people who weren't going to leave our ships in Malta. What is happening now is that when refugees are in need then these ships will not be collected. We also had a story of refugees who said they were going to leave but they were still not saved. There is this AIS that is public information. And we just want information about all the ships who are driving these ships. And if there is an incident, we can see if they were near. And we can see if we can give information to the police. That is the basic idea. As you have seen why we need this technology now we want to have a practical test to see if it works. We are trying to call our ship currently on the sea with 32 people saved for 6 days. And that is very important because negotiations are going on with cities, with governments where we actually bring them. And we have to stay in contact with this ship all the time. Let's see if it works. Yes, it looks good. Hello. Are you the ship? Hello. Hello. Hello from SeaWatch3. Hi from communications, communications congress. How is the situation on board? How is the situation on board? Hello. We are now on the 22nd of December on the 22nd of December. There are 32 people saved on the 22nd of December. There are 32 people saved on the 22nd of December. We have been drifting and moving international waters since the last time. Since then. Okay, cool. Can you So these are people who have experienced inhuman situations Can you even see the audience here? Maybe we can see them. Normally, you should see the audience who are listening to you. If you can't see them, I can see them. Is there a question that you want to ask the ship? What is your possibility? Yeah, there is a question. Okay, here is a question. Hi. I was wondering when are you going to dock or how is it going in this situation? Because you have people on board, right? You have to get on the dock. I'll just repeat the question. The question was when are you going to dock his land? And how does it work? How does it work? I hope you can hear me. I have a relatively big delay here. Our plan was to dock again for a while. Since we saved the people at the end of the 22nd at the 23rd we are already on the way back. But the thing is that not a single European state, especially not Malta, that would be our next point to dock. That means we are waiting for a chance to dock somewhere near our current position. Any other questions? Any more questions? To the ship right now? Any other questions you want to ask the ship? Okay, another question. You are currently looking at a question. Who are you talking about? Are there people who are talking to governments or are you talking directly to the ship? Yes. So basically the question was whether the ship... Okay. That was the delay. I'm sorry for that. We have a huge delay here. We have some delay here. Okay. Okay. A lot of people are talking to a lot of people at the moment. We are all the time with the... Oh. If one of you has a question you can already see how difficult it is to create a connection. That's why we need your help. If this situation improves where we have this delay where we don't get the pictures that's why we need you. Because then we have the people who are still talking to the governments who are going fast to save people. That's all we can do. But what is happening here is what you have to solve. I also have questions for the group. We have two microphones but you can also raise your hand and I'm going. What if a medical emergency is on board right now? What would happen? If a medical emergency happens then we usually ask the next rescue point to carry out a medical evacuation by boat or by helicopter. For example, last Friday there was a medical emergency on the open arms from the Argentinian Proactiva and there was a child there was a baby that was in extreme need and Malta actually sent a helicopter to take the baby and his mother to Malta. It took a while so there was not even an authorization for a medical evacuation and even though it was difficult My question is what if you are not allowed to go to a court and if there are more people in need on the lake is there a limit of people who can take a board or do you have a second ship where more people can load it or so? I mean if you can't get them to the country what do you do then? That's a good question that we're trying to solve and we don't have a real answer yet. As soon as possible we should be able to be a safe place but at the moment we're sitting around the lake and skyping with the CCC There is no solution where people can load it but at the same time we have information about three different boats that are in need right now and we have our partner organization so you're here today so the ship is back great so I'm not entirely up to date I'm not entirely up to date because of the situation with the different European countries the last thing that comes to my mind is that there was a support from the Spanish government it's been different or they're still supporting NGOs Do you want to go on the ship? What did Spain say? Do you want to go on the ship? What did Spain say? There was another rescue there was another rescue through the arms over 300 people over 300 people were rescued and that's the ship that Spain had so they had to fly towards Spain our flag is from the Netherlands that means we can't go there that's still a problem that still exists when we get our flag country what happens when a safe harbor is offered I think what would be important is that Spain itself wasn't supported we had their own rescue but there are some cities in Spain for example Barcelona where our partners are localized and I think the Spanish government has also bolstered the Spanish population and Proctiva is pretty big and the Spanish organization the Spanish government connected it a few times but they wouldn't do it for us we wouldn't have given it to the open arms and there is no solution and we have to deal with it is that really how it is unfortunately that's exactly how it is microphone number 2 question for the people on board first I want to say that I hope that the 30 people on board are doing well and that they come to the country I am curious about these negotiations what kind of leverage do you have how can you manage to convince the government is it only with shame or the German interior minister or an foreign minister to shame there is still this right and this right is pretty clear we are living in a situation where the right of the European states will be left that makes our work difficult but these laws still have money that means what we are trying to do is to remind people about international conventions and what it means is that it has to be given so quickly and a duty for states that it will happen but as you said as you said we don't really have the pressure that we can do except the public to shame for leaving the right of the woman to see but also what we saw and what gave us a lot of pressure was this sea bridge movement and that was the first the first of these standoffs when the lifeline was on the sea with 300 people on board and then we thought if the government doesn't do anything and if the government doesn't do his job then we do it so we talked to several cities and to different federal states and then for example Berlin said of course we will take them and others were taken Hamburg Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein Thüringen, Bremen-Brandenburg and they all said of course we will take a few of these people and exactly the same thing happened again so we are still in contact with the German federal states and again Berlin said of course we will take them and the German foreign minister forced us to do a lot of course we will welcome them only on the European level and 15 people that were rescued at sea so because Germany already took 150 people who were on the sea so big applause for Germany the most rich country in Europe that made it 150 people this year to take and we now try to pressure him a bit more and try to do a bit more and also the other European states in which we pressure in which we will bring these 32 people there Hello my name is Friedrich Beckmann I am from Sebrücke Augsburg we met with the CSU of Augsburg last week and we will meet the mayor of Gribel in February we want to bring the ideas that the city of Augsburg should ask the minister in Bavaria or should say we are ready and we will take people in need so that the people from the boat will be flown directly to paragraph number 23 do you think that would help if Augsburg would say yes that is a good idea we are ready to take a number of people maybe about 100-500 so that you can really leave the ship yeah the ships they are not oh sorry could you as Ruben already said this Sebrücken movement and this whole this whole thing with the solidarity cities that is our biggest hope I think that together with this civil maritime rescue the best thing that the civil society takes over is that the civil society takes over because the states for 4 years don't rescue operations and actively prevent that the only solution is that the civil society steps in and then we need a lot of creative ideas to find ways to continue to work and to distribute the work like the Sebrücken movement like for example the Sebrücken without parallel to the states themselves I just heard we are a bit over time so ok we are a bit over time so I would thank the ship I hope you are doing well applause from the crowd so we would I think we are on the ship all a bit tired and exhausted we are on the ship a bit tired and broken but we are doing well and our guests are happy there is a lot of music and here there is something like a tea house like that at the congress and a lot of music and dancing and we are not actually equipped we are actually just a rescue ship we are not really equipped to have people here for longer periods but we try to do the best out of it and for 7 days wonderful people on board who are through bad things so we are tired and it is hard but it is still cool ok there is one last question number one please ok first thank you for the work you are doing and my question is during your what is the theoretical possibility to leave the Mediterranean and not to visit European ports if there would be a chance that is mainly a political question that is a political question the thing is non Mediterranean non Mediterranean stories of European countries or not European countries European European is not Mediterranean for example that you are going from here to Hamburg and then there are people there yes you can do it and there was a discussion about it and Malta told us to fly to Rotterdam and a few people said you went to Rotterdam but it will take two weeks to go from here to Rotterdam and two weeks back that is we will have longer out of this zone than we want and the north is now quite uncomfortable and that would not be cool for our guests who are outside in a tent and the Mediterranean is bad enough and worse than Atlantic in this year that would be just that was staying out of the zone and the bad weather and the high costs to do that so many reasons why the law says you have to go to the next river and not to any other river in the world I would not recommend you to go to this river it is a personal experience I will close the session I would say thanks to the ship and I would say thanks to the people and for that I would say thanks to the translator from the 35 C3 Efrona Katnett if you have feedback send it to