The Ocean Viking is a former Platform supply vessel used as a humanitarian ship chartered from July 2019 by the SOS Méditerranée association.

[1] On 21 July 2019 SOS Méditerranée announced a new rescue campaign off the Libyan coast, using the supply vessel Ocean Viking.

[12] In 2024 French SOS Méditerranée president François Thomas estimated the cost for a day at sea for the Ocean Viking to be around €24,000.

[26] At the end of March 2021, the Ocean Viking was stranded to the south of Malta, pending permission to disembark 116 migrants rescued the previous week.

[32] On 7 July 2023, the Ocean Viking and its fast support vehicles initially picked up 40 people from a GRP boat off the Libyan coast.

After a Libyan Coast Guard speedboat showed up, the only Arabic-speaking activist negotiated the rescue of people from another boat, which had since been spotted by an NGO plane a few nautical miles away.