Aberdeen man Martin Grant, 77, was left clinging to a grassy mound as he waited for rescue teams in the Udon Thani province of Thailand on Sunday.
A Scots pensioner who was stranded when his inflatable kayak started to sink on a snake-infested river in Thailand has been rescued. Martin Grant, 77, from Aberdeen, took the dinghy out on a stretch of water but was dragged away by the strong current in Udon Thani province on Sunday afternoon.
He said: “I drove from my house to the bridge then walked down the banks and launched my kayak. I was paddling for two or three miles but then I was overpowered by the current. My kayak sank and I started to panic. Officers called Martin but were still unable to trace his exact location so they requested a jet ski to scour the length of the river. They located his Mazda car then finally found his kayak at around 10pm and used GPS aerial maps to send rescue teams to his location along the river.
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