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A portrait of Edouard Courcelle (34, from France), member of the SOS Méditerranée Search And Rescue Team.

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Members of the SOS Méditerranée Search and Rescue Team on board the Aquarius, as seen from a rescue rhib.

A group of migrants on board the rescue rhib that will transfer them to the Aquarius.

Three men on board the rescue rhib that will transfer them to the Aquarius, just after being rescued from a rubber boat in distress.

Young men with life jackets on board the rubber boat during the rescue operations.

Three women on board the rescue rhib that will transfer them to the Aquarius, just after being rescued from a rubber boat in distress.

Life jackets are distributed to the people on board the rubber boat.

A rubber boat in distress with 120 people on board is found approximately 23 miles north-east of Tripoli (Libya).

A rubber boat in distress is spotted in the early morning, approximately 23 miles off the coast of Libya.

At sunrise, the SOS Méditerranée Deputy Search And Rescue Coordinator scan the horizon with a binocular in search for migrants boats in distress.