By Peter Allen and Arthur Martin It was a miracle he made it out to sea at all. Yet this young Afghan migrant had hoped to cross the Channel on a raft made of a few nailed-together bits of plank, with a bedsheet held by tent poles for a sail. His desperate attempt reach  Britain almost ended in disaster as his makeshift craft was blown into the path of a P&O passenger ferry near Calais. Fortunately the crew of the Spirit of Britain spotted the 23-year-old. If you got points for effort... French coast guard rescue Asif Hussein Khail who tried to cross the Channel on a makeshift raft using a bedsheet as a sail
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Migrant, 23, was soaked to the skin and suffering from hypothermia
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Strong winds and currents meant he would not have made it to Britain
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He is one of about 650 would-be asylum seekers gathered at Calais
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Four died in a single week trying to reach Britain to claim asylum
Last month four would-be immigrants to @placeholder were taken to hospital suffering from severe hypothermia after being caught in the sea off Calais.