🔴 Parents are throwing their babies into lifeboats after they are intercepted in small boats in the Channel in a desperate bid for them to reach safety mollyblackall reports:
in a bid to reach the UK’s shores, with dinghies which previously carried 20 people now frequently holding “two or three times that amount.”
“Getting them onboard is rarely pretty,” they said. “We pass lines to outstretched palms to thread through carry handles at the bow and stern of the dinghy; that way, we can bring it alongside and, in theory, the people can step across quickly and safely. But because the boats are cheap and cynically made for one purpose only, the handles quickly come away under load. That’s when people start to panic.
RNLI crews have received training on what to do if they “come across tens of bodies floating face down in the water” – and they fear it is only a matter of time before they will need to put into action. “There is an unspoken fear among crew that a dinghy will split apart as people rush and clamber over its sides.”
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