‘You could see the panic’: how the Channel small boat incident unfolded

Experts said lessons appeared to have been learned from previous incidents as air and sea teams scrambled to rescue people after dinghy capsized

The emergency call came through at 2.53am. “Please help me bro, please, please, please. We are in the water. We have a family.”

The unidentified man, on a stricken dinghy, used WhatsApp to contact the French NGO Utopia 56, a humanitarian association, which works to support migrants in the camps in northern France.

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​Experts said lessons appeared to have been learned from previous incidents as air and sea teams scrambled to rescue people after dinghy capsizedThe emergency call came through at 2.53am. “Please help me bro, please, please, please. We are in the water. We have a family.”The unidentified man, on a stricken dinghy, used WhatsApp to contact the French NGO Utopia 56, a humanitarian association, which works to support migrants in the camps in northern France. Continue reading…