Tips to Survive at Sea for 48 Hours!

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This is once of the most unbelievable rescue story of scuba divers off Taiwan coast. The group of divers survived for 48 hours in the cold & wild ocean..

On April 26, Saturday, 8 experienced scuba divers started their scuba diving at 10:30 hour between Oluanpi and Chihsingyen, which is a popular diving spot off Kenting National Park. They were expected to return to their boat at 11:30 hours after completing the diving.


The scuba divers were not aware that the strong currents were drifting them far away. Unknowingly they drifted more than 100 kilometers from their diving spot. After a long wait, the skipper of the boat felt something was not right and he raised alarm and thereafter massive search and rescue operations took place to trace the divers. But the rescue team failed to find them.

on April 27, 32 year old Ting Po-ling, the diving groups dive coach reached Taimali and raised alarm to rescue the remaining divers. He swam around five kilometers (11 hours) against strong currents and tides.


Four divers were spotted and rescued on April 28, Monday morning at sea by the rescue helicopter. The same day one more diver was located on the beach in exhausted state and two divers were rescued near the Taitung coast. All the rescued divers were taken to the Hospital for further treatment for minor dehydration,facial burns and hypothermia.

Here are the tips given by the scuba divers, how they could survive at sea for 48 hours:-

In order to save their energy they were floating on their backs.

They formed a ring by holding each others hands to avoid separation.

To determine their safety the divers use to communicate with each other every three minutes.

To keep their survival spirit high, the divers were chatting and joking .

To indicate their position to the rescue helicopter in the dark they used their flash lights of their underwater camera.

The above rescue was only successful as the diving coach Ting Po-ling took the risk of swimming more than 11 hours to shore to ask for help. This was one scary unforgettable experience by the divers..