“We’re not guarding ships – We’re surviving a war zone”: A Greek maritime guard speaks on life in the Red Sea

Just hours before it was confirmed that the guard had survived, Proto Thema spoke with someone who knows this territory all too well—Sotiris, a fellow Greek armed maritime guard who had just returned from a four-month mission in the same region. He had often shared duty with the man who was rescued, staying in the same floating bases and working the same routes