A lady swimming in Japan was rescued after being swept 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the seaside the place she and her associates have been.
Carrying a rubber band, the Chinese language nationwide in his 20s spent 36 hours within the water earlier than being found by a cargo ship close to the peninsula south of Tokyo.
A close-by smaller vessel was alerted and two crew members jumped into the ocean to rescue her, AFP reported.
A Coast Guard helicopter later took the dehydrated however aware lady to a hospital, Kyodo Information reported.
Police have been alerted on Monday night time that the unnamed lady disappeared after swimming in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of the capital.
“It was round 7:55 p.m. [10:55 GMT] We obtained info after the girl’s associates reported her lacking to a close-by comfort retailer on July 8,” a neighborhood Japan Coast Guard official informed AFP.
He stated the “straight-line distance” between the seaside the place she was and the rescue web site close to Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture was “80 kilometers.”
“However presumably she drifted a larger distance.”
The girl informed rescuers that she was unable to return to the seaside after being swept out to sea because of the impression of the rubber ring.
