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The border power is drowning by immigrant smuggling gangs who launched boats with more than 70 passengers.
While more than 600 asylum seekers were trying to cross, lifeguard teams were sent to rescue tasks on Wednesday.
Recovery ships were sent from Dover, Ramsgate, Walmer and Dungeness to support border force teams.
And every French ship in the region is with a series of French lifeguards that are currently accompanying more than one migrant boat against England.
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“The situation there is a complete chaos.
“Again, open, border power can not cope with numbers trying to pass today.
“They had to call very important resources from the lifeguard service.
“Rnli takes a lot of vial to respond to the migratory boats, but it’s hard to see what else they can do.
“These boats are completely overloaded. And if the boundary force does not have resources to respond, someone has to do it.”
According to official figures, on Tuesday, 149 passengers successfully made the transition on only two boats.
On Monday, 212 arrival was taken only by Border Force teams from three Dinghies.
According to official figures, this is more than 72 people per boat in the last few days.
This dangerous extreme crowd level has become more violent last month, previously experts, this can lead to the call of more rn lifeguard boats.
Each boundary forces carries up to 95 people with catamaran and a number of small boat loads have been collected during each operation.
Now, passenger numbers reach so high levels, only one group can be recovered at a time and requires authorities to call other institutions such as RNLI.
Recovery teams come after elaborate how 19 people were rescued during a deadly transition, where six people die.
As the lifeguard arrived, men carrying 68 immigrants from another disaster on the channel, others desperately swam into the ship as they climbed the wreckage of the small boat.
Exhausted asylum seekers who reach the ‘scramble network’ of the lifeguard boat should be removed from the water while screaming, “Help me, please”.
Paula Lain, a member of the rescue team, said one of the men she saved, “I had no power to hold me,” and “I just knew I wouldn’t be there if I just let him go,” he added.
Mrs Lain said, uk We were looking at the people in the water, some disappeared under the water, and at that moment we all got stock.
“Our training started and we jumped to him. We were pulling people as fast as possible.
“I had this man on the edge of the boat. There was no power.
“If I just let him go, I knew he wouldn’t be there. There was absolutely no way to let him go.
An immigrant had to be lifted to the lifeguard boat by two recovery volunteers after he was unable to kick ”and after he could not pull himself to the ship.
Another clip recorded from the helmet cameras worn by the Cankurtaran teams showed a topless man sitting on the swelling boat because he was looking for water around the others.
Heart -breaking videos showed how the rescue teams threw the “mini life vests – how they threw them into the channel. However, when they hit the water, horrified immigrants began to swim towards the lifeguard boat.
Some struggled to reach the lying hands of those who tried to raise them to security.
In August 2023, everyone rescued by RNLI survived – but six people withdrew from the water by other ships responding to Emergency.
Some of the immigrants were still wearing a caries, not much life jacket given to them by people in France.
A video other than a rescue task in 2022 showed that lifeguard volunteers were trying to save immigrants from the water.
One shouted, “We’ll die,” one of them clung to a rope thrown at him.
The clip shows an immigrant who struggles to raise his legs to the ribs of recovery while shouting, “I bought you, listen, I bought you.”
The other was told, “Keep your head on the water” because two people hold the man’s arms while the legs were on the channel.
Help said that RNLI saved 1,371 people during 114 operations in 2024.
Walmer Rnli Helm from the channel Sinclair said: “Something I want people to understand and notice, when we are assigned to a small boat on the channel somewhere, these people really need our help.
“They receive water in non -open boats, in all states and conditions.
“They may be frozen, their legs may be paralyzed, they cannot speak, they can be in this position for ages, they can be crushed, and families are separated.
“We do our best to save every person, keep families united and do our best to keep people alive.
“There was a small boat that would stay with me forever, a small boat that bought water. There was a family in the ship, men, women and children, but there was a certain family that was very scared there.
“They were screaming, they were really upset, they didn’t know what happened after that.
“A terrible, terrible, terrible situation.
“We managed to save that family and saved them, prevented them from drowning.
“There was a little girl on that boat, she looked directly into her eyes and said:“ I love you, thank you ”. As a father passing through my heart. When I came home, I knew I had to talk to my daughter and give her a big and big kiss.”
