A tourist owes his life to a pair of jeans after he used them as a makeshift lifejacket while lost at sea for over hours.
Arne Murke was knocked from a 12-metre yacht while sailing with his brother, Helge, about 28km from Tolaga Bay on March 6.
“Luckily, I knew the trick with the jeans. Without the jeans I wouldn’t be here today, they were really the thing that saved me,” he said. “I took a deep breath, took out my jeans, made knots at the end of the legs and inflated the jeans; pull it over water and get air inside and then push it under water — I had like an improvised life vest.”He said the yacht delivery job to South America was undertaken with an aim to raise money for his 10-month old daughter, who lives with his girlfriend in the Philippines.
“I was quite exhausted so I went under, but couldn’t use my arms because I didn’t want to lose my jeans. Thanks to his previous time in the Navy Seals, Arne knew exactly what he needed to do to stay afloat while he desperately waited for help to arrive. Picture: NZ Herald“Two times it was really close to me but they didn’t see me and flew away,” Arne said.
Arne said he was now keen to find work in New Zealand, and had developed an affinity for the area and his rescuers.
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