A 61-year-old man has now been rescued from flooding in the South Pacific near New Zealand. The fisherman had fallen from the open safety rail of his 40-foot boat, which was moving away from him. He tried to swim behind the boat, but in vain.
New Zealander Will Fransen left alone on his boat for a fishing trip on January 2 and actually wanted to return the next day. When he was hooked by a large marlin, which can grow up to 3.75 meters long and weigh up to 580 kilograms, Fransen fell from the safety rail and ended up in the water.
The boat then moved further and further away from him. According to reports in the New Zealand media, the 61-year-old was unable to catch up. At the time he was approximately 30 nautical miles or the equivalent of 55 kilometers east of Te Ika-a-Māui Island. The water temperature off the coast of New Zealand is currently between 20 degrees Celsius during the day and 15 degrees Celsius at night. What was useful to the man was a belt with some degree of buoyancy, and later also his watch.
Hai left the human alone
Fransen was lucky several times. For example, the night he didn’t sleep a wink, he discovered a shark. The predatory fish swam past him and paid no attention to the castaway.
The next day, the New Zealander finally spotted a boat with three fishermen nearby. He tried to reflect the sunlight with his watch, and the three fishermen actually saw him. The young men brought fringes to the mainland. There, rescue took him to a nearby hospital.
The ‘all-clear’ was soon given: the castaway was not injured, apart from sunburn. He wants to find and pick up his boat in the South Pacific soon.
Source: Krone
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