| A British sailor survived on a liferaft for three nights in a storm-tossed sea without food or drinking water after his boat sank off Spain's Balearic Islands. |
| Roman Savin and Vitaliy Karpenko were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF helicopter crew early on Sunday. |
| But a plan to deliver a pump on board the vessel was abandoned after rescuers arrived and saw the crew had abandoned ship into the boat's liferaft. |
| However, the liferaft was unused and still attached to the boat. |
| This liferaft is designed to carry 33 persons, has an overload capacity of 49 persons, and incorporates as standard a special furlable canopy. |
| They can also locate small heat sources, such as a liferaft in the open sea, or a live body in an expanse of snowy hillside. |
