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Daily Do Good: Survives Floating In Cooler For 11 Days

A Brazilian fisherman was rescued after spending 11 days floating in a cooler in the middle of the Atlantic. Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues was on what was supposed to be a three-day fishing trip when his boat started taking on water and sank off the northern coast of Brazil. The 44-year-old fisherman doesn’t know how to swim and thought his luck had run out when he spotted the cooler from his boat floating in the water and he climbed inside it.

For more than a week, the fisherman floated at sea inside the cooler. “I didn't sleep,” Rodrigues recalls. “I saw the dawn, the dusk, asking God to send someone to rescue me." He got strength from thinking about his family back home, but he was losing hope. Eventually, water started seeping into the cooler, but he used his hands to bail it out.

Then, after 11 days floating at sea in the cooler, Rodrigues was discovered by a passing fishing boat. He says his vision was starting to fail when the boat arrived and pulled him from the cooler. He was treated at a hospital in Suriname and had to spend a few days there since he didn’t have any documentation, but is now back at his home in Brazil. He’s grateful to the fisherman who saved him and thankful to be alive. “I thought I wouldn't be telling this story, but I'm back here," he says.

Source: CNN

Aerial flying over the ocean looking at the clear horizon in the distance

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