Traveling on the Mediterranean

It is not easy traveling on the Mediterranean in order to "move" to Italy. The International Organization for Migration keeps tabs on the number of people who die trying to leave their land for Italy. Here are some numbers:  

• 3,072: The number of migrants who died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea between January and September 2014.
• More than 1,500: If this weekend’s death toll is confirmed, the number of migrants who have died attempting to make it from Libya to Italy in 2015. 
• 1,100: The number of migrants who have died trying to make it to Italy from Libya in the last week.
• Approximately 10,000: The number of migrants rescued by the Italian Navy and commercial ships between April 10 and 16.
• 21,191: The number of migrants who have arrived on Italy’s shores in 2015 as April 17.