(From Sydney Morning Herald) November 27, 2006 - 8:22AM
A yachtsman has been rescued by Thai marine police after spending three weeks adrift with no engine on a voyage from Australia to the southern Thai city of Phuket.
The lone sailor, named as 52-year-old Rocky Donald, had survived on rain water and instant noodles after his rations and drinks ran out.
He was battered by heavy storms for several days before being rescued last night about 5.5 kilometres off Patong Beach.
A Marine Police spokesman told AAP that the yacht had been towed to Chalong Bay pier for repairs.
The sailor said his yacht's engine broke down three weeks ago while he was sailing to Phuket, and that he had been unable to send out SOS messages because of heavy storms.
He managed to contact a fishing boat yesterday, and its Thai crew alerted the Marine Police who immediately launched a rescue operation.
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Aussie sailor survives three weeks adrift
(From Sydney Morning Herald)
November 27, 2006 - 8:22AM
A yachtsman has been rescued by Thai marine police after spending three weeks adrift with no engine on a voyage from Australia to the southern Thai city of Phuket.
The lone sailor, named as 52-year-old Rocky Donald, had survived on rain water and instant noodles after his rations and drinks ran out.
He was battered by heavy storms for several days before being rescued last night about 5.5 kilometres off Patong Beach.
A Marine Police spokesman told AAP that the yacht had been towed to Chalong Bay pier for repairs.
The sailor said his yacht's engine broke down three weeks ago while he was sailing to Phuket, and that he had been unable to send out SOS messages because of heavy storms.
He managed to contact a fishing boat yesterday, and its Thai crew alerted the Marine Police who immediately launched a rescue operation.
Litvinenko affair: now the man who warned him poisoned too
· 'Potentially fatal' level of polonium found in Italian
· Dose in Litvinenko would have cost £20m - expert
Ian Cobain, Ian Sample and Mark Rice-Oxley in Moscow
Saturday December 2, 2006
The Guardian
The unknown assassin who killed Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, appeared last night to have claimed a second victim after tests revealed that one of the dead man's associates had been poisoned with the same radioactive isotope, polonium-210.
Mario Scaramella was found to have ingested a potentially fatal dose of the substance and was being treated at a London hospital last night.
The Italian self-styled security consultant says he flew to London last month to warn Mr Litvinenko that both their lives were at risk. At a meeting at a West End sushi restaurant he claimed he gave the Russian a document which named five people on a hitlist allegedly drawn up by Russian intelligence officers.
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