The crew of the Pride of Canterbury ferry, located near the French city of Calais, saved a migrant who tried to swim across the English Channel in a wetsuit, according to the English Channel Prefecture and the North Sea.
On Monday, the ferry crew informed the local rescue service that there was a man in the sea, about 20 kilometers north of Calais.
“The ferry turned around and took a man, a migrant at the age of about 30 years old, in a wetsuit. He had severe hypothermia”, – the prefecture said in a statement.
After some time, the ferry crew transferred the man on board of the helicopter of the French Navy, which transported him to the hospital in the city of Calais.
According to the British newspaper Guardian, this is not the first time that migrants, at the risk of their lives, try to swim from France to the UK. Earlier, on the coast of Belgium, the body of a man from Iraq was found who tried to cross the English Channel. In just a year, according to the publication, trying to cross the strait, four migrants died.