“Trapped At Sea and Sinking” - Transcript
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[Lindis Hurum]
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Within minutes you're so close to death and then so close to
life, it's like everything else is just stripped off.
[On-Screen Text – “Lindis Hurum, Head of Mission”]
[Sebastian Stein]
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Either you live or you die, there's very little opportunity in
between.
[On-Screen Text – “Sebastian Stein, Deputy Head of Mission”]
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When people go in the water, if they don't know how to swim...
they're under.
[On-Screen Text – “38 Miles off the coast of Libya”]
[Lindis Hurum]
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I remember we were all looking through the binoculars and it
had a funny shape.
So we could see, even from a distance that the boat had a
problem.
[Sebastian Stein]
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It's right there.
[Sebastian Stein]
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One of the sides of the rubber boat had punctured and the boat
was taking in water,and you could see how people were throwing
water out of the boat to avoid it from sinking.
[Lindis Hurum]
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I guess this is one of the reason why I do this job, because
when I do get into a situation it's just about doing and
acting. I just get into that mode and I don't think so much
about how potentially dangerous it is, just about to do it.
But I did think that we need to hurry up.
[Sebastian Stein]
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Often, most of the people in the boat may never have been on
the ocean before in their lives, maybe they had never seen the
ocean before in their lives. They don't know how to swim,
they've been mistreated horribly, and all they want is to just
get out of Libya. They're taking to this boat in the middle of
the night, so they don't really see what's going on until the
morning.
And then when the sun rises, there is nothing but water around
them, and nothing to navigate by,and they don't know how to
run the boat, even.
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So already, just this...For me, I would be mortified if I was
in this situation. And then imagine that then the boat starts
taking in water.
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I mean it must be...It must be terrifying.
[Sebastian Stein]
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- Do you have women on board?
[Refugees]
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- No, no women.
[Sebastian Stein]
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- No women, ok.
[Refugees]
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- No women, no women.
[Sebastian Stein]
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- So, I have done this many times before, ok.
My name is Sebastian.
We will save you all, and we will take you to Italy.
Ok, but I need you to help me.
[Lindis Hurum]
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- When the panic started, and I tried to stop it, and I
realized there's no way I can stop this because they're in
completely survival mode and instinct has taken over.
[Sebastian Stein]
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- I think that at that time, when the opportunity presents
itself, maybe all that-- aggregated stress, and all that fear
that's been built up that you have kind of been keeping inside
of you.
And that moment suddenly just comes out.
[Lindis Hurum]
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- I knew that we had the RIB in the water, we had pre-
positioned the life vests. So even if it were to completely
collapse and sink, I think we had a good chance to get people
out of the water.
[Sebastian Stein]
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- I was stuck in the RIB, and I was trying to talk to people
and create some kind of order in the chaos.
But all I could see was the backs o