TradeWinds is glad to report a happy ending to a tale of a crew member lost overboard.
So often, the missing are never found, but that is not the case with the extremely fortunate Vidam Perevertilov, chief engineer on board the 51-loa seismic survey ship Silver Supporter (built 1998).
After falling from the Fjord Shipping-operated vessel 400 nautical miles (741 km) from the tiny Austral Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, he survived for more than 14 hours clinging to a fishing buoy before being rescued by his own vessel.
