Date: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
© Other The sides of the v-shaped raft were made from large flower pots filled with plastic bottles and insulation foam. Pic: KNRMA REFUGEE has been dubbed Europe's most determined migrant after coastguards caught him trying to cross the Channel on a dinghy made of RUBBISH.
The desperate man - thought to be from Eritrea - was rescued from a busy shipping lane as he tried to get to Britain on his homemade raft.
It was held together with rope, and the hull was made of empty plastic bottles and construction foam.
The migrant, 26, was handed over to border control after the Dutch coastguard found him off the coast of Imuiden, Netherlands.
© Other The wood-framed raft was spotted around one kilometre from the Dutch North Sea coast. Pic: KNRMCoastguard spokesman Edward Zwitser said: "He was already on the approach route [to Amsterdam] used by large ships.
"A captain of a large ship would overlook him and sail over him.
"He could sink or capsize and, moreover, [the boat] cannot be steered.
© Other The wood-framed raft was made of flower pots, empty bottles and insulation foam. Pic: KNRM
