What begins with the dream of changing your life can become a real nightmare. Four Nigerian stowaways literally traveled at the helm of a freighter for 5,600 kilometers and 14 days. it was not his intention. The migrants intended to reach Europe and ended their journey in the port of Vitoria, Brazil.

A death-defying trip in which on the tenth day they ran out of food and drink. “I was shaking, scared, but I'm here,” Thankgod Opemipo Matthew Yeye, 38, told Reuters.. It was then that they began to drink the seawater that jumped at them in order to survive.

Finally, he and his companions were rescued by the Brazilian Federal Police.. “It was a terrible experience for me,” added the stowaway in his statements to the press.

The thing does not stay there. Convinced that they had reached Europe, the surprise was great when they were rescued and found that they were in Brazil and that they had crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, two of them are already in their country after requesting repatriation, while Yeye and Roman Ebimene Friday, a 35-year-old man from the state of Bayelsa, have requested asylum in Brazil.