 German NGO ship Sea Watch 3, carrying 257 migrants, was waiting to be assigned a port on Tuesday as the situation in the Mediterranean sees no sign of slowing. On Monday, the ship's crew members assisted the Italian coast guard to rescue migrants from three overcrowded wooden boats from 63 not-school miles south-west of Lampedusa. Sea Watch 3 alerted Italy and mortar of the boats in distress and handed out life jackets to the migrants before two coast guard vessels rescued the migrants. According to the Italian Interior Ministry data, the number of migrants arriving in the country so far this year has been more than doubled since last year. So far in 2021, 29,968 migrants have arrived in Italy compared to 14,658 in the same period in 2020.