Mar 14
Washed-away Japanese man’s impromptu rescue streamer
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One amazing rescue story making the news rounds is that of Hiromitsu Shinkawa, a 60-year-old Japanese man who had been washed out to sea by the tsunami. Shinkawa, floating on a portion of his destroyed house’s roof, was found floating nine miles off shore two days later.
During his ordeal, Shinkawa had somehow gotten hold of a long pole and tied a red cloth to the end of it to increase his visibility. Initially it didn’t work: “Several helicopters and ships passed by, but none of them noticed me,” he said, after finally being spotted and rescued by a Japanese Navy ship.
Shinkawa’s clever thinking is echoed in an actual survival product designed for those lost at sea.
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