Migrants rescued from an inflatable raft.

They asked the men to help fill the inflatable boat with air.

An inflatable raft full of refuge seekers on its way to Lesvos, Greece.

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On the dinghy, I held all of my fear inside of me so my boys wouldn t see it, Fatima explains later.

Funding for furnishings, basic laboratory and shop equipment, and vehicles water transport (two jeeps, one boat and one inflatable) has been included.

Their dinghy had begun to sink when they were still far from shore and they had to throw anything that wasn t essential overboard, including their water logged, heavy ruck sacks.

The Strait of Gibraltar, just 14 km wide, is one of the routes preferred by mafias to move immigrants in pateras , small boats or inflatable dinghies which are too fragile to cross these dangerous waters.

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The overloaded rubber dinghy in which they crossed the Aegean Sea to Lesvos had begun to sink, and in order to keep it afloat for the final few hundreds of metres to shore they were forced to get rid of any excess weight they could by throwing their possessions overboard.

So, I wanted to know if this was possible to put this at an industrial level, so we made a large boat with a large sail, and with a very light hull, inflatable, very small footprint, so we have a very big size and power ratio.

So, we're talking about things like inflatable liners that can conform to the complex topological shape on the inside of a cave, foamed in place airlocks to deal with this complex topology, various ways of getting breathing gases made from the intrinsic materials of these bodies.

According to a story by non profit US radio broadcaster NPR, the dinghy that took them across started taking on water, so Yusra and her sister, both strong swimmers, jumped in the sea to give the half sunk boat more buoyancy. After spending three and half hours in the water, she finally reached the island of Lesbos.