Some dramatic uncooked video emerged Tuesday (May 5) displaying the chaotic rescue of migrants from a sinking rubber boat by a cargo ship.

The transport business has lengthy been saying that the worldwide group can’t depend on ill-equipped service provider ships and their crews to hold out large-scale rescues of migrants at sea. After watching this video, it’s straightforward to sea why.

In the previous 16 months, service provider ships have participated in nearly 1,000 such rescue operations within the Mediterranean resulting in the rescue of greater than 40,000 individuals, which is why the transport business has been pressuring the EU for elevated search and rescue operations to take care of the unprecedented humanitarian disaster that has unfolded.

The movies beneath present the same rescue by the MV Stjerneborg cargo ship carried out in 2014 within the Mediterranean (Warning: Graphic Videos):

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