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Sailor who fell overboard survived 16 hours adrift after clinging to ‘sea rubbish’ The i 25/02/2021 Katie Grant © Provided by The i Mr Perevertilov does not remember falling off the ship and thinks he might have fainted (Photo: AFP) A sailor who fell overboard a cargo ship survived 16 hours adrift in the South Pacific after clinging on to a piece of “sea rubbish”, according to his son. Vidam Perevertilov, 52, plunged into the ocean at around 4am on 16 February as the ship he was working on, the Silver Supporter, made a routine supply run between Tarunga, on New Z...

Miracle at sea: Sailor left bobbing in Pacific Ocean clinging to floating rubbish 23 Feb, 2021 08:25 AM 3 minutes to read Vidam Perevertilov toppled from the Silver Supporter's deck without a lifejacket. Photo / Supplied NZ Herald A sailor left clinging to an old fishing buoy has spent almost 24 hours bobbing in the Pacific Ocean after watching in horror as his ship sailed into the dark without him. Chief engineer Vidam Perevertilov toppled from the Silver Supporter's deck without a lifejacket about 4am on February 16 as the vessel made its routine supply run between Tauranga and Pitcairn Isl...

A sailor who fell overboard at night in the Pacific Ocean survived for 16 hours by clinging to a discarded buoy.Vidam Perevertilov, a 52-year-old Lithuanian engineer, had been on Silver Supporter, a

A Lithuanian man has been rescued after falling overboard a freight ship and spending 14 hours drifting in the Pacific Ocean.

A man has been rescued after falling overboard from the MV Silver Supporter. Water survival experts say a sailor who survived 14 hours adrift in the South Pacific had must have had “a lot go right for him” to survive that long in the water. The remarkable tale of survival involved supply ship Silver Supporter’s chief engineer Vidam Perevertilov who fell overboard on route to the Pitcairn Islands. The ship departed Tauranga on February 8 and was 740km south of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia when Perevertilov fell overboard sometime between 2am and 4am on February 16. He was p...