KOTA KINABALU: A fisherman literally hung on to dear life by clinging on to a jerrycan for over 30 hours after his boat capsized in waters near a resort off Karambunai near here.
A navy ship found Morris Dulin in extreme exhaustion but still clutching onto the jerrycan at 1.45pm on Thursday .
Kota Kinabalu OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Zaidi Abdullah said Morris was rescued by the navy ship KD Sundang. Morris had gone out to sea with his two friends aged 41 and 42 and were fishing near the Nexus Karambunai Resort on Wednesday morning . The two friends, said to be wearing life jackets, managed to swim to safety to a lagoon at Karambunai while Morris was nowhere to be seen. The friends later alerted the authorities about the incident.
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