MOAS is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of refugees at sea. The charity was established afterwards the Oct 2013 disaster when 400 men, women together with children drowned off the Italian isle of Lampedusa,
The MOAS website includes a set out of interactive maps designed to explicate the migration routes into Europe & inwards the Bay of Bengal, together with the run MOAS is doing along those routes to rescue refugees. From the website's homepage you lot tin navigate to larn to a greater extent than most MOAS's run inwards the Mediterranean Sea, inwards the Aegean Sea or inwards the Andaman Sea. Each of these sections is illustrated past times an interactive map.
For event the Aegean Sea department includes an interactive map showing migrant routes through Turkey to the Greek Islands. In 2015 over 700,000 people used these routes to endeavour to make Europe. Almost 600 people died trying to cross the Aeagean Sea.
The MOAS inwards the Mediterranean Sea department includes an interactive map of MOAS rescue missions inwards the Mediterranean. It includes a heat-map of where those rescues took identify together with details most the set out of refugees saved during each rescue mission.
The MOAS inwards the Andaman Sea department of the website looks at MOAS's run inwards the Bay of Bengal. The interactive map hither shows the migrant routes from People's Republic of Bangladesh together with Myanmar together with the set out of migrants living inwards refugee camps.
