Man Overboard Saved By Plastic Bottle

[Mulboyne]

Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor
A Japanese sailor who fell overboard without a life jacket survived a night at sea clinging to an empty plastic bottle he found drifting by, the coast guard said Thursday. 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. A fishing boat spotted him around 20 kilometers off the coast of the northern city of Kamaishi. He was hanging on to the bottle with one hand and waving the other, the coast guard said..."He was very lucky as the bottle happened to be there," a coastguard spokesman said, adding the bottle was no bigger than three liters...more...

[GuyJean]

Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor

That's either one small dude, or one large bottle.. And I bet it's the first time he's been thankful for garbage..

GJ

[succubusqueen]

probably a japanese smurf!:)

[AssKissinger]

I'm not littering; I'm saving a life.

[Iraira]

That'll teach him to not piss in the ocean...if it was a whaling ship, that would be a nice touch as to how mother nature exacts a little bit of vengence.