Fisherman endures 5-mile swim to shore, and more

last updated 8 January 2015

Fisherman endures 5-mile swim swim to shore

Andrew Wilson, a 25-year-old Australian fisherman, was thrown from his boat by a large wave nearly 5 miles from shore. With his boat motoring away, Wilson braved shark-infested waters off the coast of New South Wales without a life jacket. It took “adrenaline and just sheer determination,” Wilson said, because if he’d relented, the rough current would have pushed him out to sea. “I wasn’t going to stop, so I just kept going,” said Wilson, who suffered only minor injuries. “Miracles do happen,” said Carmel Jones, a local rescuer. “Lucky he was a strong swimmer.”

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