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‘Please help us’: Mayday call as migrant boat capsizes – search continues in Channel
‘The cruel Channel killed them’, says asylum seeker after migrant boat capsizes
Harrowing moment desperate Channel victims cry for help before boat capsizes
Heartbreaking 2am plea calling for help was sent from sinking boat in Channel’s icy waters before four migrants died
A HEARTBREAKING 2am plea calling for help was sent from the sinking boat on the English Channel.
Four migrants lost their lives in the icy waters on Wednesday trying to cross over to the UK from France.
A distressed voice note was sent from the dinghy before it capsized[/caption]
In a distressed WhatsApp voice note, a desperate boat passenger explains how the boat is filling up with water.
The voice in the 22 second recording can be heard saying: “We are in the water and we have a family.”
A child is said to have been heard crying in the background, reports i.
Shortly before capsizing, the message was delivered to Utopia 56 – a charity supporting migrants in Calais.
Spokesman Nikolai Posner said: “In the background of the message we can hear babies screaming.
“The man said the water was inside the boat and so they were in the water inside the boat, that families and kids were on board and that they needed emergency help.
“It was like ‘Help us, help us, help us, we need help’. He sounded young, probably from the Middle East.”
An email was then sent to the UK coastguard at 2.13am issuing a warning of a boat in distress.
However, authorities were not alerted until 3.05am.
The Government said they could not explain the delay in response – which eventually saw 39 people rescued.
A British fishing boat helped to pull survivors out of the flimsy and crowded dinghy.
Those they saved in the two-hour rescue told crew they had paid smuggling gangs £5,000 each for a crossing.
Last November at least 27 migrants drowned after their dinghy overturned.
More than 44,711 people have made the dangerous crossing on board small boats so far this year.
On Tuesday PM Rishi Sunak announced new measures to stop the boats. Yesterday he expressed his sorrow at the “tragic loss of human life”.
Death toll in migrants boat horror could rise from four
Levi Davis’ family beg ferry passengers for help finding X Factor star who took 8-hour boat journey before vanishing
LEVI Davis’ family are begging ferry passengers for help to find the X Factor star who took an eight-hour boat trip before vanishing.
The former Bath Rugby player, 24, went missing on October 29 after leaving a friend in Ibiza to get the ferry to Barcelona alone.
X Factor star Levi Davis’ family are pleading with the public for help to find him[/caption]
Levi’s desperate family announced in recent days that a private investigator was volunteering their time to try to find him – and offering a £10,000 reward for information.
Gavin Burrows and his company, Line of Inquiry, are now pleading for details on behalf of the family, the Sunday Mirror reports.
They are asking people who were on the same ferry journey as Levi come forward.
The boat motored between Ibiza to Barcelona on October 29 – the day the 24-year-old disappeared.
Gavin said: “He must have spoken to somebody on the ferry.
“It was a six, seven, eight-hour journey.”
Levi was last seen leaving an Irish pub in Barcelona on CCTV almost six weeks ago.
His worried family travelled out to Spain to help with the search, but despite some possible sightings of Levi none have been officially confirmed as him.
Levi’s mum Julie has also been told her son’s phone and bank accounts have still not been used since the last confirmed sighting.
It comes after a video message sent by Levi to her on the day he went missing has been released.
In the short clip, he is seen on the ferry.
Taken in the middle of the seven-hour trip, Levi’s voice is barely audible over the heavy winds, but he can be heard saying: “Hi mum… it’s beautiful.”
Last month, a witness contacted Levi’s family claiming they had seen him in Barcelona’s Placa Sant Agusti Vell.
It is believed that the same witness said they had seen him in another square near the city’s Arc de Triomf monument.
The spot is just a six-minute walk from the Old Irish Pub where Levi was seen leaving on October 29.
Levi made the journey to Barcelona alone after staying in Ibiza for a week, arriving in the city at around 7pm.
We are still worried sick about him and just want him home safely.
Julie
The former Bath winger had been suffering from depression and had gone on holiday following a knee injury.
His passport was discovered at the port area in Barcelona almost two weeks ago, as the search continues.
Julie said she hasn’t heard anything from Spanish cops since the discovery of the passport.
His family said they received a tip that Levi was spotted looking “lost and confused” in a homeless area of Barcelona.
Levi’s foster mother claimed he had mentioned a blackmail threat in a since-deleted video shortly before he disappeared.
Levi’s mum Julie said this week: “We are very grateful to Gavin and his team for volunteering their time, expertise and the reward fund to help find Levi.
“We are still worried sick about him and just want him home safely.
“Hopefully, this extra support will encourage people with any information to come forward.”
The rugby player-turned-reality star performed on X Factor: Celebrity in 2019 with fellow rugby players Ben Foden and Thom Evans as part of the group Try Star.
In 2020, he starred in the E4 dating series Celebs Go Virtual Dating.
Levi’s family said they’re ‘worried sick’ about him[/caption]
Navier’s 30-foot hydrofoiling electric boat hits the water and prepares for production
Electric leisure boat startup Navier has managed to bring its concept hydrofoiling watercraft into reality, and has opened preorders — if you happen to have a few hundred grand laying around. It may not be affordable, but it’s not like the other 30-foot boats you can order are a bargain either. At least this one […]
Navier’s 30-foot hydrofoiling electric boat hits the water and prepares for production by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch