The "Astral" is a 30-meter sailboat built in the 70s that had always been used as a luxurious leisure boat. Until last spring its owner, aware that in the same sea which he sailed every year thousands of refugees died trying to reach Europe, yielded to the NGO PROACTIVE Open Arms. After a complex process of remodeling, the "Astral" became surveillance and rescue boat and sailed to the coast of Libya to carry out what would be his first rescue mission with a team of Salvados on board.
