[Caprinicus]

You're right that it's much less water, but euro countries are still choosing to accelerate the situation. Migrants will float their boat up to anything that looks european, sink themselves, because they are often required to bring them onboard and take them to europe, even if they're barely off the coast of wherever they came from.

Even if you want all the migrants you can get, it's a terrible plan because they often accidentally sink themselves near vessels that can't take them onboard and drown, or leave in vessels that aren't seaworthy because they think they'll get picked up, and when they don't they drown.