Giorgos Stantzos

Eastern Samos mayor warns of tinderbox conditions as migrant inflows keep growing

On November 1, 2015, the Samos Divers Club was called in by the local coast guard to help with a vessel in distress off the northeastern coast of the eastern Aegean island. The club sent four divers to the location where the Turkish-flagged Kusadasi Ilgun, carrying refugees and migrants, had gone down just 40 meters from land.