On October 26 2025, a group of Samoan crew members aboard the cruise ship MSC Splendida rescued 19 migrants in distress off the coast of Mallorca, Spain. According to the ship's tracking data, the intervention took place approximately 20 nautical miles from Cabrera, in the Balearic Islands, not far from the southern coast of Mallorca. The ship, with 3,900 passengers on board, responded to a distress call and, upon arrival at the scene, found the migrants on an overcrowded vessel in rough seas; some of them had already fallen into the water and were struggling to stay afloat. The crew lowered a ladder to allow the shipwrecked people to climb aboard, and fortunately, all 19 refugees, who were from the Maghreb region of North Africa, were saved and assisted by the MSC staff. Among them were a woman and two young children, a three-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy. The entire rescue operation lasted a remarkable 31 minutes given the difficult sea conditions. The incident occurred...