Woman Survives for 20 Days on Life Raft
A woman survived 20 days adrift in a rubber life raft after her boat hit a reef and sank in a storm, officials said Thursday.
Claudine Pare, 42, of Noumea, New Caledonia, washed ashore in the raft on remote Tanga Island, in the far northeast of Papua New Guinea, on June 19. It took nine days for word of her plight to reach Port Moresby, the national capital.
Pare bought the yacht, Excitable Boy, in New Zealand and sailed alone from Auckland on May 12 for New Caledonia. She said the boat hit a reef during a storm on May 30 and sank.
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