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Believe it or not woman falls from Jewel of the Seas in South China Sea and survives after 38 hours in water

Believe It Or Not Woman Falls From Jewel Of The Seas In South China Sea And Survives After 38 Hours In Water

Swimming prowess and Survival Instincts set in for 32-year-old Fan

by Patti Pietschmann

Fan, a 32-year-old  Chinese woman who  was on board  Royal Caribbean’s 2,000-passenger Jewel of the Seas  with her parents survived  38-hours treading water and even falling asleep  over night when she slipped and fell off a railing on the 4th deck of the massive ship.  Talk about amazing survival instincts. Fan said she avoided being pulled under other big ships by swimming frantically away and that she fell asleep treading water. However she couldn’t avoid jellfish stings and once she was rescued they rushed her to the hospital to attend to those wounds, which remarkably were her only scars from the plunge into the sea.
She was actually saved by a crew from a fishing vessel and brought back to the ship  which she and her parents had boarded in Shanghai  for what she thought would be a glorious five-day holiday cruise. Fan attributed her swimming prowess to having graduating from a sports college.

During the 38-hours, she was also able to rest by floating on the surface and waving her arms underwater. Her father reportedly tried to check the cruise ship’s surveillance cameras to find out what happened to her, but the footage only showed her walking back and forth. One of the  many mysteries of the sea. 
However seems falling off ships isn't exactly as rare as one would expect, however this one is unusual because the victim lived.






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