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Why do you cry everyday on the same topic?
I'm tired of trying to make you understand that your brother didn't die because of you
You do whatever you want. I cannot talk about this everyday.
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We are giving out life jackets on the second spot on the ocean.
Then, on the radio, we hear Chris from the other motorboat 'Tornado', screaming frantically.
"There are people in water, people are drowning! It's chaos. There's a hole in the boat!"
It's crazy when we arrive at the scene. What is going on is overwhelming –
– we can see people lying around in the water.
And we can see that 'Tornado' is almost sinking –
– and it's completely crowded with people standing on it.
It's really not a good situation to have people in the water.
And as soon as there are some people in the water, others jump in in desperation –
– and suddenly there are too many people in the water that you can get an overview and get them all aboard.
We pull one or two aboard.
When I get the picture of this group of people in the water with the dead pregnant woman –
– I don't notice the body.
All of a sudden we leave them and that's a bit confusing.
But that's because it's very important that we help relieve some weight from the other boat.
On the way over there I suddenly see Max –
– Max is a doctor on our team –
– who have jumped in the water to rescue a woman, and is now treading water.
There are not many people helping –
– and you are one of them.
So do you choose to be photographer or a rescuer?
If it ends in a situation where I took a picture instead of maybe saving a life –
– I think, I would find it difficult to live on after that.
So I had prepared myself mentally for that situation.
It's always a dangerous risk that people jump into the water as soon as they see us.
So it's important to calm people down, and get close enough –
– that people can get aboard without jumping into the water.
You can see Robert passing them his helmet, so that they can use it to shovel water.
You feel that you are racing the clock.
Some of our doctors told us that it takes 30 seconds to drown.
You don't have much timer under water.
That's the reason why I don't like to risk photographing instead of helping.
So the few pictures that I do get, is when the boat is moving.
It's not until this moment that I realize that there is a body in the water.
Most of these people can't swim. And they are in chock.
And you don't know if they have tightened their life jackets properly.
It's really about getting them onboard.
The photographer in me sees a lot of really powerful situations playing out.
And I see a lot of photos that I could get, work with and frame properly.
The photographer that have spent 27 years being capable of photographing in difficult situations –
– that photographer I had to try to suppress.
You have to pull them in, pull them by their clothes, whatever you can get ahold of.
They are slippery.
You have so much adrenaline rushing through your body that you have another strength.
When you are suddenly out there in the giant ocean –
– where there is only the horizon.
There is nothing to see, you're simply alone out there. There is silence.
It's the giant nothing.
And then all of a sudden, there is an inflatable boat –
– completely overcrowded with people.
When you see that for the first time, and get close, it simply is overwhelming.
It is something that you don't understand untill you see it.
And when you smell it and hear it, it is very different from what you could imagine.
When we head back to the ship and are waiting to get people onboard, there is a strange calmness –
– where you are just sitting here waiting with the adrelanine still rushing through your body –
– trying to tell people to stay calm while still being fired up yourself.
Suddenly you can smell that people are reeking of gasoline.
They have been in a boat where their extra gas tank have been leaking.
I don't know if the enginge leaks as well.
But in many situations we have experienced that people were sitting in a soup of gasoline, saltwater and piss.
And there's something in the gasoline, that we don't have in our gas back home –
–which means that all the people who have been sitting in that soup gets chemical burns –
– these wounds that look like regular burns, that they get.
To get this close to this big story that we hear about on an abstract level all the time –
– with numbers and terms like "convenience-refugees" and what else you hear.
When you get out there, and get eye to eye with the situation –
– then this whole discussion about "convenience-refugees", and if they fled from war or from poverty –
– or whatever it is –
– it seems completely abstract and doesn't matter at all.
It comes down to a question of –
– of human kindness, actually.
Treating...
It gets real. It gets in eye level.
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