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.