In 2023, documentary filmmaker Hans Hermans of ICU Documentaries boarded the M/S Geo Barents, to document the Search and Rescue (SAR) mission of Doctors Without Borders on the Mediterranean. While on board, he witnessed a pushback by the Libyan coastguard and filmed an extremely complicated rescue of 440 refugees, from a ship in distress.

The footage he filmed, was used in the four-episode documentary series on asylum and forced migration Hans produced with his co-director Martin Maat for Dutch public television. The series reveals what happened behind the fences of the overcrowded registration center for asylum seekers in the Dutch town of Ter Apel in 2023.

Ready for Rescue is a documentary film on the mission of the MSF-crew on board the Geo Barents in April of 2023.

Rescue for Rescue is subtitled in English and can be viewed free of charge at the website of ICU Documentaries. All footage is copyright protected and can’t be used or copied without prior written approval of the producers.