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Sunday, March 27, 2016

I cant believe this......

I don't know whether to laugh or just bang my head against a brick wall with this one...
A tourist from the cruise ship Marco Polo, 65 years old, British female so I understand, missed the cruise ship as it left Funchal yesterday evening. So this woman then gets a taxi to Santa Cruz, and as the cruise ship is passing by there she then jumps into the sea to start swimming for the ship...(I am trying not to laugh)
Fishermen spotted the woman about 500 meters from shore and went to investigate to see if they were really seeing what they thought they were, which was correct, a woman with handbag trying to swim for the ship, they rescued the woman and raised the alarm for the emergency services. She was taken to hospital suffering Fatigue and Hypothermia.

Just a small update on this story.

The lady who has been named as Susan Brown, had been in the water for nearly 4 hours when fisherman saw her and rescued her.  The Cruise Ship was on its way to Lisbon its next stop after Madeira before returning to Bristol in the UK after a 32 day round trip of the West Indies.


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  1. UnknownMarch 27, 2016 at 11:24 PM

    omg!

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  2. tootsMarch 28, 2016 at 12:01 AM

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  3. PeterMarch 28, 2016 at 7:02 AM

    British? Sounds more like American. Probably Trump Fan!

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  4. Emily De-SousaMarch 28, 2016 at 7:34 AM

    Unbelievable. Must be a sandwich short of a picnic.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 28, 2016 at 10:24 AM

    I could not read it for laughing .

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  6. ScarlettMarch 28, 2016 at 3:15 PM

    There was a story on this in the Diário today. Apparently she had a spat with her husband and was going to fly home. Then, on seeing the ship so near to shore at Santa Cruz, she decided to take a chance and swim, fully clothed and with her handbag. Some crazy business!

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  7. UnknownMarch 31, 2016 at 10:51 AM

    Apparently she actually managed to swim to the ship but then gave up when she realised she'd have to scale the 50ft hull flat, single formed surface, exterior of the boat........ Some people really don't think, do they !!!

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