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Two 'foreign' tourists remain missing after a ferry sank travelling between Lombok and Komodo Islands, near Bali. But the remaining people -who come from Indonesia, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands and Spain - have had an unbelievable escape.
With only one lifeboat, 10 tourists swam for SIX hours to reach the safety of a nearby island - only to find there was an erupting volcano there, and no water! They'd already been in the water about 12 hours. When they were eventually found, there really didn't seem much hope of finding other survivors.
' We waited until midday on Saturday. We were five kilometres (three miles) from the coast - there were many big waves separating us from the coast.
People started to panic... Everyone took the decision to swim to the closest island, five kilometres away, where there was an erupting volcano.
Homassel said the group swam for six hours before arriving at the island, Sangeang, where they survived Saturday night by drinking their own urine and eating leaves. '
But those who stayed in and around the lifeboat were finally found today, after wait around 48 hours. Sadly, a Dutch man and an Italian woman are still missing.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/18/two-britons-swim-six-hours-boat-sinks-indonesia
Many more photos at the Daily Mail link here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-boat-carrying-20-foreign-tourists-sinks.html
With only one lifeboat, 10 tourists swam for SIX hours to reach the safety of a nearby island - only to find there was an erupting volcano there, and no water! They'd already been in the water about 12 hours. When they were eventually found, there really didn't seem much hope of finding other survivors.
' We waited until midday on Saturday. We were five kilometres (three miles) from the coast - there were many big waves separating us from the coast.
People started to panic... Everyone took the decision to swim to the closest island, five kilometres away, where there was an erupting volcano.
Homassel said the group swam for six hours before arriving at the island, Sangeang, where they survived Saturday night by drinking their own urine and eating leaves. '
But those who stayed in and around the lifeboat were finally found today, after wait around 48 hours. Sadly, a Dutch man and an Italian woman are still missing.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/18/two-britons-swim-six-hours-boat-sinks-indonesia
Many more photos at the Daily Mail link here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-boat-carrying-20-foreign-tourists-sinks.html