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Originally Posted by Ramrod
I listened to the father recounting his story of what happened (R4 yesterday) and it raised a couple of questions in my mind:
He said that his wife and children (suddenly?) died whilst on the boat.......what of?
He said that the captain of the boat saw the huge waves and "jumped overboard"......why would he do that? It makes no sense for someone who is relatively safe on a boat to jump overboard into the water 
The other question I have is that a poor boy is washed up on a beach from a boat somewhere in the Med and the father is immediately on hand. That's an amazing coincidence. How the hell did they find him so quickly? |
I'd allow a little for translation error; the report I saw certainly didn't suggest the wife and children were already dead before they went into the water.
Beyond that, I suspect all this happened reasonably close to shore, and the smuggler piloting the boat always intended to jump ship and swim back to Turkey as soon as it was away. That would also explain how the father was back so quickly, and how his children washed up so soon.
