Man sails from PNG to Australian island on twig raft
- Published: 25 Jan 2013 at 13.45
- Online news: World
A Polish man was lucky to be alive on Friday after sailing from Papua New Guinea to a north Australian island on a raft made of twigs and sticks, through crocodile and shark-infested waters, during a cyclone.
This file illustration photo shows children floating on a bamboo pontoon, in Fiji, on November 11, 2003. A Polish man was lucky to be alive on Friday after sailing from Papua New Guinea to a north Australian island on a raft made of twigs and sticks, through crocodile and shark-infested waters, during a cyclone.
The man was found washed up in mangroves on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, a treacherous stretch of water that lies between the two countries.
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