AN ALARMING video shows the moment a panicked woman screams as she tries to find an eight-year-old boy who plunged into the sea.

The kid has fallen down a crack between a cruise ship and the dock and the hysterical woman can be heard shouting "where is he?"

The blood-curdling sounds are believed to be from the boy's mother but a child's screams can also be heard in the video.

The child, thought to be from northern Europe, was with his parents and sister on holiday in Salerno, Italy, when the nightmare occurred.

He was holding his father's hand shortly before he broke away and began to run along the harbour wall.

The youngster then slipped and fell into a tight gap between a cruise ship and the dock, according to local media.

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The boy's desperate dad immediately followed him into the water in an attempt to rescue his son, but this lead to both becoming trapped.

Screams ring out from those around and passersby were quick to react.

They can be seen scrambling to pull the pair to safety before it's too late.

In a moment that any parent would dread, a woman, who appears to be the boy's mother, is heard desperately screaming "where is he?".

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She frantically sprints up and down the dock, searching for the youngster.

The volunteers worked quickly to first save the boy, as he struggled to find anything to hold onto to keep him afloat.

Security guards and passersby threw the child a rope which he was able to grab and be reeled in to safety.

The grateful woman can be seen racing over and comforting the little boy after he is pulled onto the dock.

The child's dad took longer for the volunteers to fish out of the water but was eventually hauled up the steep wall and onto dry land – with the help of a life belt.

Fortunately no one was hurt in the horror incident, but the young boy and his parents are said to be left very shaken up.

This is not the only boat drama to make the news recently.

We told how a ferry crewman pushed a passenger off a ramp to his death in a Brit holiday hotspot.

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The 36-year-old man fell into the harbour and died after apparently being sucked down by the propellers at Piraeus, Greece.

And there was more boat drama on board a Scots ferry as the ship ran aground in Orkney.

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