ASIA / PACIFIC
June 6, 2016
THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 5
Flying fish and a movie help
save four people lost at sea
By Eileen Ng and
Alan Clendenning
The Associated Press
UALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
— A Spanish couple, a
Malaysian woman, and a
man from Hong Kong who spent 10
days adrift at sea together say they
survived by eating flying fish that
landed in their small boat and
distilling seawater using a technique
one of them saw in a movie.
The Spaniards were with the Hong
Kong-born owner of a Malaysian
resort and a resort employee when a
freak wave capsized their boat just off
the Malaysian coast last month. They
managed to right the boat and bail it
out, but they were unable to restart
the motor. The food and water they
had aboard were lost.
Marta Miguel, who was with her
partner, David Hernandez, told
Spain’s COPE radio station that
three flying fish landed in the boat on
the third night.
“Up to the sixth or seventh day, we
didn’t have anything else to eat,” she
said.
One of the survivors had the idea of
eating clams stuck to the bottom of
the boat and mussels encrusted on a
passing piece of flotsam, which pro-
vided more nourishment, she said.
They got drinking water thanks to
her recollection from a movie.
“I recalled seeing something about
a castaway who had to do this thing to
drink water. I wasn’t certain whether
it was from evaporation or the water,
but seeing as we had so much time on
our hands we made it up as we went
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RHYTHMIC RECORD. Women wearing raincoats dance in unison
on the Bund in Shanghai. According to the Guinness World Records
website, 31,697 participants in Beijing, Shanghai, and four other cities
set a new world record for mass plaza dancing in multiple locations by
performing choreographed dance moves together for more than five
minutes. (Chinatopix via AP)
Getting in rhythm:
More than 31,000 in
China set dance record
BEIJING (AP) — China’s dancing grannies have taken
their moves to the record books.
Guinness World Records says more than 31,000
Chinese participants set a record for mass plaza dancing
in multiple locations.
Its website said 31,697 participants in Beijing,
Shanghai, and four other cities set the new mark by
performing choreographed dance moves together for more
than five minutes.
Participants in Beijing posed with Guinness repre-
sentatives in front of the city’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium.
Generally middle-aged and elderly women, such
dancers are a common site in parks, plazas, and other
public spaces in Chinese cities. While considered a
healthy way to exercise and socialize, the performances
have sometimes drawn criticism from those living nearby
over the loud music accompanying the moves.
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LOST & FOUND. Pictured from front left to right are Tommy Lam Wai Yin, Marta Miguel, David
Hernandez, and Armelia Ali Hassan after being rescued at a resort in Sabah, Malaysia. The four
were rescued after their boat capsized off the northern coast of the island of Borneo, according
to the Malaysian coast guard. (The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency via AP)
along,” Miguel said.
owner.
They used a cellphone screen and a
Hernandez told COPE the four
plastic bag to catch evaporating never lost hope, even though many
water, according to Miguel. “Doing it vessels and an airplane passed close
every 15 minutes, we were each able by, apparently without seeing them
to have a drink once an hour,” she told or realizing they were in trouble.
COPE.
He said they felt “fear and frustra-
The two Spaniards were weakened tion” that their families had no news
but in relatively good health, Miguel’s of them. “We were more afraid of that
father, Luis Miguel, told Spanish than for ourselves,” he said.
National Radio.
Television images showed them
Ali Hassan Mohamad Dusi said his smiling as they got off a plane and
daughter, Armelia, the resort met family members in the
employee, told him she was in good Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu after
health apart from being sunburnt. being rescued by two Vietnamese
Tommy Lam Wai Yin was the resort fishing boats off Borneo island.
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