HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese fisherman has been rescued after drifting at sea for 14 days, surviving by drinking his own urine and eating a live turtle, state-controlled media reported Friday.
Bui Duc Phuc, 33, was fishing for squid on a small bamboo boat off the coast of central Quang Ngai province when a strong current swept him away from a larger fishing boat nearby, the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said.
Four days after losing contact with the larger vessel, Phuc caught a sea turtle and ate it raw while also drinking his own urine to survive, it said.
On the eighth day he drank rain water, and on the 14th day - June 5 - he was found unconscious by another fishing boat some 100 kilometres from where Phuc was swept out, it said.
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