A woman who was swept out to sea while swimming with a rubber ring was rescued 36 hours later around 50 miles from the shore. The woman, a Chinese national in her 20s, had disappeared from a beach in the central Shizuoka region of Japan on Monday evening.
A search and rescue operation was launched soon after, a local Japan Coast Guard official said. ‘It was around 7:55pm on July 8 when we received the information after the woman’s friend reported to a nearby convenience store that she was missing,’ the official added.
A cargo ship finally spotted her floating off the southern tip of Chiba’s Boso peninsula at 7:48am on Wednesday, the official said.
Two crew members of a smaller nearby tanker, who were contacted by radio, jumped into the sea to rescue her. She was later airlifted by a coast guard helicopter and taken back to land.
