The seaman who climbed from a logging ship into the bay on Monday evening spent 23 hours in the sea before being rescued by the crew of a port pilot tug. Photo / Gisborne Herald
The seaman who climbed from a logging ship into the bay on Monday evening spent 23 hours in the sea before being rescued by the crew of a port pilot tug. Photo / Gisborne Herald
Police have released without charge the crewman who got off the log ship Paovosa Wisdom in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay on Monday night in an incident described as "an extraordinary survival story".
The Myanmar man, aged in his late 30s, made his way off the ship that night clad in an immersion(survival) suit and was in the water for 23 hours.
He was spotted and picked up by the Eastland Port pilot boat at around 4.40pm on Tuesday afternoon.
The man has undergone a Covid-19 test since coming ashore, and Inspector Darren Paki, the police area crime prevention manager, said the test result had come back negative.
