A tale stranger than fiction .. The survival of a sailor who fell in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

The sailor struggled to stay afloat.

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When the sailor, Vaidam Pervitlov, 52, from Lithuania, fell from his ship in the Pacific Ocean, he managed to survive for 16 hours while clinging to a small buoy he found in the ocean, humiliated in a tale stranger than fiction.

Vaidam was on board the "Silver Sporter", which is carrying containers, during a routine 3,200-mile voyage between New Zealand and Iceland.

And 500 miles before the ship arrived from land, he fell into the sea and the ship disappeared from his view, without a life jacket, at about four in the morning.

And the sailor struggled to stay afloat until the sun appeared two hours after falling, at which point he noticed a small black spot and swam towards it.

And it was this decision that saved his life, as it was a shabby fishing buoy that may have been washed away in the Pacific Ocean years ago.

The buoy was the first stroke of luck that helped save the sailor Vaidam.

As for the second stroke of fortune, the hand he was waving was seen by a member of the sailors of the ship, which returned to search for him.

The crew of sailors did not notice his fall into the sea, and his disappearance from the ship remained without anyone's attention for 4 hours.

When the crew of sailors noticed his absence, the captain returned to search for him and asked the French Navy for help at their base near Polynesia, where they sent a helicopter to search for him.

Ibn Vaidam, who is Marat, speaking from Lithuania, told a news site in New Zealand, "His will to survive is strong, and he told me that until the sunrise he kept fighting to stay afloat. He always took care of his health and that is why he managed to stay," and Marat added, "When the ship went back to look for my father, he saw it." And he started screaming, but they did not hear him and they changed their direction, but he did not despair and kept waving his hand, until one of the sailors saw his hand that was waving. And immediately the ship reached him and they sent a raft to him and then they lowered a ladder and the sailors helped him to climb onto the deck of the ship, and he was still in the water He was floating 16 hours. He looked as if he was about 20 years old and was very tired, but he was alive. Now he talks a lot about God in the messages he sends to us even though he was not a religious person before this accident. "

When Marat asked his father why he did not keep the raft that he found in the sea as a souvenir, his father answered him that he wanted to leave it at sea, as it might "contribute to saving someone else's life."

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