The daughter of a Filipino fisherman who has been rescued after 17 days adrift has thanked the Vietnamese authorities and fishermen for helping to save her father.
Anding Nadie Repil was thrown overboard after his boat collided tossing him into the ocean. He survived at sea for more than two weeks by holding on to a plastic can and eating seaweed, reports say.“We can’t imagine life without my father ... We couldn’t even do something because of this pandemic as we are in a lockdown,” she said.
“God used the Vietnamese fishermen to save our father. To all Vietnamese that helped and saved our father, you are all a hero.” Anding said he went fishing alone on March 19 on a small boat from the port of Candria in the Philippines. He was asleep when his boat was struck by a cargo ship, tossing him into the water around 40km off the coast of the Philippines.“On April 5, a small Vietnamese boat appeared but it could not accommodate many people, so the fishermen on board gave me a basket boat and some food,” he said.
Twelve days later he was picked up by another boat which took him ashore and handed him over to the authorities in Binh Dinh province. “When the fishermen rescued me, I was very touched and could only cry. I have a wife and four children, I have not seen them for so long. Now I only want to get home,” he said. — Vietnam News/ANN
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