Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor

Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor

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Tsuyoshi Kurosawa, a 28-year-old crewman on the 2,997-ton tanker Sakura Maru, was lost at sea for 10 hours after he fell in the sea late Tuesday while relieving himself over the side of the vessel.

"As an empty plastic bottle was floating by, he used it as buoyancy until he was found," the coast guard said in a statement.

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Who said littering never helped anybody?

This is a very interesting story, I'm surpised this man was able to keep himself afloat with just a small plastic bottle.

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Very lucky man to survive this, it's a damn big ocean.

The human body is actually pretty buoyant in salt water, and from your link.

"He was very lucky as the bottle happened to be there," a coastguard spokesman said, adding the bottle was no bigger than three litres (quarts).

I can't do the math on this, but a sealed 3 litre bottle of air will actually give you a lot of lift if clutched to your chest while floating on your back in salt water.