Greek authorities carried out two separate rescue operations on Monday, saving a total of 142 migrants and refugees from boats in distress south of Gavdos, a small Greek island in the Mediterranean, officials said.

Both operations were coordinated by Greece’s national search and rescue center and supported by Frontex, the European Union’s border and coast guard agency, amid continued arrivals in the area.

In the first and larger operation, a Frontex vessel located a rubber boat carrying 114 people about 30 nautical miles southwest of Gavdos. The migrants were rescued and safely transported to the port town of Palaiochora, on the southern coast of Crete.

A second rescue followed later in the day, after a Frontex aircraft spotted another small boat with 28 people on board roughly five nautical miles south of Gavdos. A Frontex patrol vessel escorted the boat, and those on board were transferred safely to the port of Karave, on Gavdos.