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Adrift at sea for 80 hours clinging on to a life buoy
Singaporean diving enthusiast talks about his ordeal after boat sank off Tioman
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Fabian Koh, Shabana Begum
Forty hours after Singaporean John Low's boat sank and he found himself drifting aimlessly on a ring buoy from Malaysian waters to the South China Sea, he decided to strip himself of his clothes.
The T-shirt, shorts and underwear he had on were rubbing against his badly sunburnt skin and it got so painful that he could not bear it any more. He stripped.
