Crew wanted
We are looking for you to join our volunteer crews in 2025!
Are you a sailor, technically adept or media-savvy and communicative? Do you have experience as a dinghy driver, medic, from search & rescue deployments or in the field of awareness? Then we are looking for you for one of our deployments next year!
As one of six crew members, you will be part of our three- or four-week deployments to support sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. With our sailing ship Trotamar III, we are looking for distress cases at sea, support people on migrant vessels and – in an emergency – rescue people ourselves and take them on board our ship.
Register via the crewing form on our website. There you will also find the exact dates of our deployments.

55 people rescued
Early in the morning we received an emergency call for an overcrowded rubber boat. We immediately set off in search of the boat, which was about 13 nautical miles away…
Mehr lesenLast training sessions with the dinghy
The Trotamar III lies at anchor on the west side of Linosa. Our crew is busy with final training sessions: They are practicing all the important maneuvers that we perform…
Mehr lesenTrotamar III set course for the central Mediterranean Sea
Yesterday evening, the Trotamar III left Licata and set course for the central Mediterranean Sea.Before heading for the operational area, our crew is heading for the island of Linosa for…
Mehr lesenOur first deployment in 2025
Our crew has arrived in Licata! Falk, João, Kit, Nora and Tobi, together with skipper Matthias, have already started the preparations for our first deployment in 2025.The crew members got…
Mehr lesenLet’s go into the second round of our crowdfunding!
🤑 We at CompassCollective urgently need a second skipper so that we can distribute the work among more people during our deployments. That’s why we are supporting Johannes in getting…
Mehr lesenUpdates from the shipyard
We are in dry dock! (Update | January 27) The Trotamar III was taken out of the water and is now in the shipyard in Licata. There, the biggest construction…
Mehr lesenBack in Licata
An eventful deployment is coming to an end and we are back in Licata. After we were unable to go out into the Mediterranean Sea for a long time at…
Mehr lesenWe supported 52 people in distress at sea
Yesterday evening at 8.19 pm. we found a wooden boat with 52 people on board. The engine had stopped working and the boat was unable to maneuver. In the darkness,…
Mehr lesenTROTAMAR III setting sail to search and rescue
Yesterday evening, the TROTAMAR III left the port of Licata in Sicily and set course for the search and rescue zone. On board is a well-prepared crew of six under…
Mehr lesenSAR Trainings
Today, the crew of the current deployment set sail for the first time totest sail with the Trotamar III. Off the coast ofLicata, they practiced various manoeuvres with the dinghy.We…
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