Swimmer lost for 37 hours rescued while floating 80 km off Japanese coast

A simple trip to the beach became a castaway nightmare for one woman in Japan who spent 37 hours adrift in the Pacific Ocean after she was swept out to sea in an inflatable swim ring, local officials said.

The woman, a Chinese national in her 20s who has not been named, was rescued on Wednesday more than 80 kilometres off the coast of Japan.

Though the Japanese Coast Guard had already launched a search for the woman, she was spotted bobbing alone in the water by a passing cargo ship, the Associated Press reported.

Personnel on the cargo ship asked an LPG tanker, the Kakuwa Maru No. 8, to assist in the rescue. Two crew members from the tanker jumped into the water to save the woman.

Global's Heidi Petracek explains.

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