Schiebel Group’s Camcopter UAS Used to Save Lives on Mediterranean Sea
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The Schiebel Group’s Camcopter S-100 UAS helped successfully complete search and rescue missions on the Mediterranean Sea, in partnership with the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) global charity and its MY Phoenix ship.
The use of the Camcopter was essential for the MOAS organization and its mission of saving lives, according to MOAS’ founder Christopher Catrambone.
“The use of drones has been instrumental to MOAS’ successful humanitarian efforts,” Catrambone said via Naval-Technology.
“The Schiebel Camcopter S-100, with its takeoff and landing capability on the 40m-long ship MY Phoenix, has been providing real-time daylight and infrared video, widening the view of the crew on-board and enabling them to locate migrants in distress even well beyond the horizon.”
The Camcopter is fully operational at day and nighttime, on both land and sea. It operates at a range of up to 200km, and has vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities.
“When it comes to shipborne search-and-rescue missions, the better all available assets are used, the more people can be saved,” said Hannes Hecher, CEO of the Schiebel Group, in a company press release.
“That is the reason why the role of our CAMCOPTER S-100 has once again been so crucial; the information it generates makes up for the best possible coordination of all actors and resources involved in the mission.”
Since June, MOAS, in coordination with the Italian Red Cross, has saved more than 19,000 men, women and children that were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Since it launched in 2014, MOAS has saved and/or assisted more than 30,000 people.
