"Italian sailors rescue 109 African migrants from Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Nigeria in a rubber boat, in the sea between Italy and Libya, October 4, 2014. The migrants claimed to have left from Tripoli the evening of October 3, spending the night moving north. The Italian navy has several ships patrolling international and Italian waters at any given time in an attempt to rescue migrants and transfer them safely to shore. Since the beginning of 2014, roughly 120,000 refugees have landed in Italy, more than double the total for the entire year of 2013."