WATCH: Nigel Farage saves migrants from drowning in English Channel

The controversial pro-Brexit Farage talks about how he had planned to go out fishing when his boat came upon a kayak with two people in it coming over from France. The two were in pretty bad trouble, and almost didn't make it.

"We arrive, gotta say the forecast was wrong. It wasn’t sunny, it was really overcast. The wind was much stronger than we’d expected and the sea was a lot rougher, be we thought, 'the hell with it, let’s go.'"

"About five miles out into the English Channel, ten past eight this morning, we see, in the distance, a small orange boat bobbing around. I found it hard to believe that anybody else was out there, let alone a small boat, but we made our way over to it, and it was an inflatable kayak."

"One of them was not in a good state at all. We came alongside and said to them 'We’ve just called the coast guard, help will be coming.'"

That was exactly the moment when their little kayak overturned.

"One of them had a life jacket on, the other didn't — he went straight down under the water," Farage recalled — but, thankfully, he came back up afterwards, and the pair were "able to grab on to each end of the upturned kayak."

"We were hoping [one of the drowning people]'d use his legs to help force himself up — he did not have the strength."

Farage and his companions decided the best course of action would be to right the kayak and put the people back in it, considering the circumstances. They did so, and then called the Coast Guard.

"They were saved, but they were very wet, obviously, very, very cold. We gave them a couple of cups of hot coffee with sugar, which seemed to improve their mood a bit — then Border Force turn up."

"You know, this Border Force that we spend so much money for — and Border Force's instructions were for us to take the two onto our boat, and they would then collect them direct from us. So we said, 'Look, if we try and get one of these guys out and over the gunnels, number one we've tried already, it's very, very difficult, he's not in a good state, and number two, as soon as we do that, the other bloke is going to get tipped straight back into the water.'"

They convinced the Border Force agents finally to take the pair into their custody.

Farage concluded his narrative by saying that this needs to be fixed at a higher level, otherwise there will be more attempts to cross the Channel, along with more fatalities.

"Had it not been for the slack tide, they would have been gone."