This picture of a 4-month-old baby saved from a shipwreck went viral. Here's what happened next...
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00:00One of the men shouts, there is a child, there is a child, there is a child.
00:04The equipment recovers the 4-month-old baby who is no longer breathing.
00:30We received a call informing us that there was a ship with a hundred people shipwrecked.
00:43It was the Brandenburg-Balkon-Bas on board.
00:47We knew we had little time to get there.
00:49We were three hours from the last known area where the distress call had been made.
00:56We arrived on a shipwreck that was really catastrophic,
01:00because the boat had collapsed in the middle.
01:03There were already people scattered all over the water.
01:08We start looking around us if there are no other people drifting, which was the case.
01:12We immediately arrive at the small piece of wood where there are the three people on it.
01:17One of the men shouts, there is a child, there is a child, there is a child.
01:21This is where we understand that he has a child on his shoulder
01:25and that we must intervene to destabilize the situation,
01:30that is to say, throw life jackets at them right away.
01:33The equipment recovers the 4-month-old baby who is no longer breathing.
01:38This is where a cardiac massage is launched right away to try to resuscitate him.
01:44I have the baby in two.
01:47After a few seconds, the baby started to scream.
01:52He came back and we can proceed with the operations,
01:57that is to say, leave with other people to get the other people out who are in the water.
02:15Very good, good job.
02:18Thank you so much.
02:21It's good, it's good, it's good.
02:25Adrenaline begins to arrive and as a journalist, I had to take pictures.
02:32But very quickly, we are faced with a case that is so critical,
02:36with many children, pregnant women.
02:39In fact, you put the case down and you start becoming a technician like the others
02:43and you just start saving people.
02:45We came back because there was no more sun.
02:48It was night, so it was the moment when we wouldn't have found much anyway.
02:52So it starts with taking each other in the arms, the teams.
02:56Everyone hugs each other, everyone checks each other.
02:59Everyone is happy, the pressure goes down.
03:03And during that time, the rescuers are taken care of.
03:08They are given clothes, they are given a small bag with dry, clean clothes to eat.
03:14The medical teams take care of the most serious cases.
03:17Very quickly, people fell asleep because everyone was exhausted.
03:21This time it was a bit exceptional because the four-month-old baby was still not very well.
03:26So the medical team asked for an evacuation by helicopter.
03:30So late at night, I think around two o'clock in the morning,
03:33a helicopter came and took the four-month-old baby and his mother to a hospital in Italy.
03:41And today, do you have any news from this family?
03:44Do you know where they are?
03:46I don't know where they are exactly, but we had news and they are doing well.
03:49We avoid talking about what happened because people are still traumatized by what they have experienced and what is normal.
03:55Already when they are at the back of the boat and suddenly they can see the sea.
03:59When I go for a walk on the bridge, it is not uncommon to see people crying just because they are looking at the sea.
04:07And they are thinking, as they tell me, of the 22 people who died unfortunately.
04:12We got closer to the Italian coast to land people because the women are still in a fairly critical state.
04:16We have been waiting for a response from the authorities for two or three days to find out where we could land people.
04:20In the absolute, a minority of them may be recognized as refugees.
04:26But it makes a lot of sense for a part of them to be sent back to their country and for the cycle to start again.
04:31I would just like to thank all these humanitarians who give their lives, their time to bring a little humanity into this world.
04:37Frankly, superheroes exist. It's them. It's really them.