Smart Young Boy Saves Himself at Sea As He Swims With Plastic Bottles, Emotional Video Breaks the Internet

- The emotional video of a young boy trying to beat the tide as he swam with plastic bottles has made news

- To make it past a border in Spain, the kid made fast strokes in the water as he relied on the bottles

- Many who reacted to the video said at least the swimmer put some of the plastics causing environmental hazards to good use

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A desperate migrant boy has employed the use of waste plastic bottles to keep himself afloat in the water as he tried to beat security.

In a short video shared by Sky News on Instagram, the boy formed a ring of bottles around his waist as he swam fiercely.

When the camera caught his face, he had a pleading look as he stretched his hands. The same media gathers that he was trying to reach the Spanish enclave called Ceuta.

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Within one hour that the video went live, it has gathered over 83,000 views and many comments on the platform.

Watch the video below:

Legit.ng compiled some of the reactions below:

bcdqpr said:

"Better acting than anything Will Smith has ever done."

mafaldaprete said:

"Omg thank God is alive."

simdunbar said:

"I have mad respect for him."

ryanbaldock said:

"See all that plastic in the ocean is being used for good. It’s not all bad. Plastic helping save life’s one migrant at a time."

mariaorros said:

"So sad to see all this hurt in the world."

brianjohnfrosd said:

"He just wants to feel safe give him a place to stay."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a beautiful building that attested to the power of recycling got many social media users talking.

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Posting about the house, the Danish embassy in Ghana said the building is the country's first house made from plastic waste.

A man named Danida Nelson Boateng applied to the organisation and his workers were trained. The fine house was made from 13,000 kilograms of plastic that were cast into bricks.

Source: Legit.ng