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 plucked from the ocean by the same ship half a day later after an extensive air and sea search.
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