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Circumstances migrants face on their journey to america. here is nbc's tom giannis. >> reporter: off the cost of san diego, custom and border protection agents taking no chances. this 31-foot pleasure cruiser stopped at a local marina. inside the cabin dozens of undocumented immigrants. >> every time we come across maritime smuggling vessel, it is overloaded, it is overcrowded, the vessel is hardly sea worthy. >> reporter: and now happening more often and just steps from the beach. in the last month alone, four migrants have died including three who drowned when their ship lost power, hit a re...

>> reporter: authorities say at least 30 people were packed tight on the boat, a 40-koot cabin cruiser, which likely was trying to blend in with commercial traffic after crossing the maritime border. at least three people were killed. >> this was a smuggling vessel. smugglers don't care about the people they're exploiting. all they care about is profit. >> reporter: tonight, the captain is in custody. and while the investigation continues, video shows some survivors being taken from the hospital in handcuffs and loaded into government suvs. with the recent surge that we've seen at the border, ...

But this now what we have. >> and there was another deadly capsizing in the aegean sea, ivan watson joins us now from the greek/macedonian border to talk about what he's been seeing and witnessing. ivan, it was just last week you were showing us migrants and refugees in turkey taking to the waters, heading to greece. now we're seeing a deadly outcome for some. walk us through what you've seen. >> reporter: well, in this case, it's a terrible and deadly disaster that the coast guard has described as a wooden-hulled boat which was not the typical smuggling vessel that we were seeing migrants usi...