On July 14, 2006, José Durá “Pepe” and nine other crew members of the fishing boat 'Francisco y Catalina' made the decision, protected according to them in the so-called “Law of the Sea”, to board a boat prepared for 10 crew members to 51 Eritrean immigrants stranded ten miles from Malta, including a 2-year-old girl and a pregnant woman. For nine long days, the ship waited for the decision of the European authorities. While the negotiations took place among the diplomacy of half of Europe, more than sixty people lived together in just fifty square meters.