BOSA! Inside the world's most dangerous migration route

The Central Mediterranean's sea has been the world's most dangerous migration route for years. These are the voices of migrants collected during the two different mission on board of Life Support SAR EMERGENCY NGO vessel.

BOSA is a difficult word to translate. But all sub-Saharan migrants know BOSA.
BOSA means: strength, we are saved, happiness, we made it and much more.
BOSA is the shout that the survivors started to sing once they were rescued by Life Support staff after days of sailing on sheet metal boats in the Central Mediterranean.
The Central Mediterranean sea has been the world's most dangerous migration route for years.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) over 20,000 people have died or disappeared there since 2014, with more than 90% of deaths due to drowning, an average of six per day.
On the 13th of December 2022, Life Support, the EMERGENCY ship for Search and Rescue (SAR) sails from Genoa for its first mission in the Central Mediterranean sea.
I was involved in the first and fourth Life Support missions, which began on March 21, 2023
Three months after the first one, the situation has changed.
The reactivation of the Tunisian route is bringing about a change both in the way people arrive and in the people who decide to leave.
From the 1st of January to the 27th of March 2023, 26,927 people arrived in Italy. Three times more than in the same months of 2022.
In the first three months of this year, 499 human beings were found dead or missing.