KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysian tuna ship rescued an Indonesian woman who drifted for five days in the Indian Ocean after last week's tsunami swept her out to sea from her home on Sumatra island, an official said Monday.
Melawati, 23, was spotted alive Friday while clinging to an uprooted sago palm tree in waters near Aceh province, said Goi Kim Par, manager of the Malaysian International Tuna Port.
Her first words were: Aku dari Aceh (I am from Aceh), which stunned her rescuers because they had found her at sea, 100 nautical miles (185km) out from where she last stood five days earlier.
Ooi Wee Seong, marketing manager of Hoom Xiang Industries Sdn Bhd, which owns the fishing vessel, said their boats usually took a return route between the Andaman Islands and Myanmar.
Due to strong winds, the captain, Chern Dah Rong, decided to steer his vessel past the Nicobar Islands and Aceh to get back to the Malaysian International Tuna Port in Batu Maung here, he said in an interview yesterday.
what a lucky lucky woman.
some dive friends of mine from phi phi were telling mé some horror stories about people out at sea having run-ins with some sharks...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman who was plucked from the sea after clinging to a palm tree for five days in the wake of a devastating tsunami heard Wednesday that she is 18 weeks pregnant with her first child.
"I'm very glad, very happy," 25-year-old Malawati said from her hospital bed in the northern Malaysian island of Penang after doctors gave her the news following medical checks.
