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'He looked more dead than alive': Ship captain who rescued Singaporean drifting at sea for 4 days
Dredging ship was on maiden voyage when its crew rescued S'pore diver, says captain
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As their ship inched towards the naked man clinging to his ring buoy, Captain Cornelis Plugge and First Officer Srdan Bazdan of the Diogo Cao thought he was dead.
They were astonished when Mr John Low lifted his right arm to signal that he was alive. Mr Low, 60, said he was surprised that anyone saw him from the ship, which to him looked 10 storeys high.
