Small Boat (Naufrage)

It was the largest single loss of life in the Channel since the pioneers of a new migrant pathway to the UK set off in boats from the French coast in 2018. All the more reason to consider the fate of those who died in the attempt and determine the proximate cause of their deaths. * Most had got hold of a life jacket, others had wrapped the inner tube of a tyre around themselves, some had only an anorak or sweatshirt. But in reality, he sank gently to the bottom, dragged down by his waterlogged shoes, weighed down by his clothes, suffocating, his lungs full of water, his panicstricken heart finally stopped dead by the cold.