“Trapped At Sea and Sinking” - Transcript
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[Lindis Hurum]
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- That fear, that's been built up, that you have been keeping
inside of you, that moment it just suddenly comes out.

[Lindis Hurum]
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- I think that's the strongest thing, I take away with is that
you're so close to what's coming for all of us,is to stay
alive, and to be alive, and to be safe.
It's an emotion we can all understand.
[Lindis Hurum]
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- Do you know what language they speak?
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- For every rescue, the first thing we do,
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and I think it's a crucial point,
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is to go into the rib, and
to get as close as possible
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to the boat, and to get
connected with the people,
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and to get their confidence,
to get their trust.
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Please stay calm, it's very
important to stay calm.
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We will rescue all of you.
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So we say, "Stay calm.
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We're taking you to Italy.
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You're all going to be fine."
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It's the single-most important thing,
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because if people are
calm, everything is done
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in a much safer way.
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- We could have used the
small rescue boat we had,
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but it can only fit three
more people in addition
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to the crew that's already on it.
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So it would take forever, basically,
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if we didn't take it along side.
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- I stayed on the sea side,
staying on the RIB to continue
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that conversation, to keep people calm.
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And at that moment when
you have that connection,
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I would feel calmer and think,
"okay, it will be fine."
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Then it turned out that
everything was not so fine.
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- In the beginning things seemed
to be working fairly well.
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People are coming one by
one more or less, steadily,
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but there was some fighting,
but people were still coming
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off the boat.
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- In like a split second,
it goes from being calm,
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and you think you have a
connection with people,
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then you can just see them
going into survival mode,
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and they just go for it.
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- The situation got
completely out of control,
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and people just started
jumping off, all along the
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fishing boat.
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They just started jumping onto our boat.
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- If someone panics,
it takes seconds before
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a lot of people panic.
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And then, you get into survival mode.
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I've never been so close to people who are
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going for their life,
like "I need to get out."
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