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After the chaos of the 2011 Arab Spring, eruptions of violence saw millions become refugees overnight.

Since then many have taken to the seas in a desperate bid to reach the relative safety of Europe. Thousands have died trying.

Since 2021, Nejma Banks has worked as a cultural mediator for Medecin Sans Frontier onboard their vessel Geo Barents, rescuing refugees who get into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea.

There is one rescue in particular that left a deep impression on her.

This is that rescue. 



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Late one night, a mayday message is received at the headquarters of Canada’s national search and rescue operations in Trenton, Ontario.

The message is coming from a GPS tracking device registered to David Aqqiaruq, from Igloolik – an island located on the fringes of the Arctic Circle, 1700 miles away.

Earlier that day, David and his son Lester had set off in a small boat to catch walrus. The pair had not been seen since.

With a violent snowstorm now raging, their situation grows more dire by the minute.

Their mayday message would spark one of the most extraordinary and tragic rescue stories in Canadian search and rescue history.



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In Nairobi, Kenya, Paramedic Stella Zakina is preparing for the start of her shift when she is alerted to an attack taking place at the city's popular Westgate shopping mall.

Local businessman Abdul Haji is in a meeting when he receives a text from his brother saying he is trapped inside the mall where a terrorist attack is taking place.

So begins the incredible story of how civilians and emergency workers alike rushed to the scene of one of the worst terrorist atrocities in recent times, risking their lives to do everything they could to help those caught up in it all.



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18-month-old Jessica is playing with her friends in the backyard. One moment she is there, the next she has disappeared. Her mother, Reba, realises with horror what has happened. Baby Jessica has fallen 22ft down the dry-water well at the back of the property, and there is no way to get her out.

It’s a rescue that gripped America and saw experts and community come together like never before to save her. Down the well, Baby Jessica hymns to herself and cries for her mommy. Will they get to her in time?
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Over half a million people commute to London every day. They travel at the same time, on the same train, with the same familiar faces in the carriage. Rarely does anyone think for a moment that they might not arrive at their destination. Tony Jasper was no different.

Until, on one fateful morning in October 1999, Tony is onboard a train bound for Paddington Station when it collides head on with another train.

In an extraordinary act of bravery, Tony is spurred into action, risking his life to save others from the disastrous wreckage. It marked the beginning of a life changing journey that would take him through trauma and depression, but also, to love.



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A man goes missing for two days in the Rockies. With the temperature plummeting, it falls to a team of local search and rescue volunteers to try and find him.

PhD student Jen Lois is one of those volunteers and, for the past five years, has been studying the group to learn more about the sociology of search and rescue.  

This mission would prove to be just about the strangest she ever took part in. 



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