A 69-year-old man who capsized on a boat spent 22 hours at sea and managed to survive , and, having spent 22 hours on the high seas, managed to survive. The Guardian writes about this.
The 69-year-old man, whose name has not been disclosed, was the only person on the boat that was heading to the resort island of Yakushima from the southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Saturday, November 27. When the ship crashed and capsized, the Japanese managed not only to get out of the water, but also to inform his colleague about the incident.
Despite the fact that emergency services immediately began looking for the man, rescuers were only able to reach him the next day. The Japanese was noticed 22 hours later – according to the Coast Guard, he was sitting on the engine of an overturned boat, holding on to the propeller.
The Coast Guard noted the man's ability to survive and called his rescue a miracle.
Earlier in September, it was reported that a shipwrecked tourist with two children survived four days on the high seas. To save the lives of the children, the woman began to breastfeed them, but without waiting for the help of rescuers, she died from dehydration and heatstroke. Later, the injured six-year-old boy and two-year-old girl were found in a lifeboat – they were next to the body of a dead mother.