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Hello, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse, and welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service.

Hi Chris.

Hello, welcome on board.

Thank you.

I'm Gabriel. Very nice to meet you.

So this is the Phoenix.

Yes.

Meet Chris Katrambone, insurance broker, ship owner,

self-made American millionaire.

She is a very tepped out vote.

We have a lot of electronics on here.

We have radar here.

The Phoenix is an old fishing vessel aid station, Moas for short.

Chris, who made his millions selling insurance to people working in war zones is now spending those

millions trying to save the lives of people fleeing conflict. The story of how it all came about

begins with a family boating holiday.

Leaving Lampedoza, which has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, one evening

we spotted a winter jacket floating in the water and my wife and I talked to our captain and said that it

likely belonged to a migrant that was no longer with us a person that had tried the

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