Her swimming background came in handy when the shoddy dinghy she and 17 others were on started to take on water somewhere between Greece and Turkey .
She was a National Team swimmer for Syria before her life , as she knew it , fell apart .
swimmer 's swimming background came in handy when the shoddy dinghy she and 17 others were on started to take on water somewhere between Greece and Turkey .
She was a National Team swimmer for Syria before her life , as she knew it , fell apart .