One moment, 40-year-old Nagarajan was sitting by himself on a deep sea trawler boat that was returning to the shore after fishing. The weather was rough and the fisherman was holding on to his seat.
The next moment, he was floating in the sea off the Kudla coast, the water carrying away his unmoving body far away from his boat and his colleagues. Nagarajan didn’t panic, he focused on keeping his hands and legs beating. And that is how he lived to tell the tale of a man who swam for seven hours and made it out alive.
Around 20 nautical miles (40km) off Panambur beach, 10km from Mangaluru, a UAE-bound merchant ship came to his rescue.
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