{"id":1557088,"date":"2022-07-15T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T01:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557088"},"modified":"2022-07-15T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T01:49:24","slug":"stray-inflatable-ball-saves-stranded-swimmer-lost-at-sea-for-18-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stray-inflatable-ball-saves-stranded-swimmer-lost-at-sea-for-18-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Inflatable Ball Saves Stranded Swimmer, Lost At Sea For 18 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstray-inflatable-ball-saves-stranded-swimmer-lost-at-sea-for-18-hours%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a turn of events that played out like a real-life homage to the Tom Hanks movie \u201cCastaway,\u201d a partially-inflated ball played a starring role in saving a stranded swimmer.<\/p>\n<p>A North-Macedonian vacationer known only as Ivan, 30, was reportedly swept out to sea on July 10, while swimming with friends near Myti Beach in Kassandra, Greece \u2014 but a child\u2019s toy came to the rescue just in time, allowing him to survive some 18 hours alone in the water before he was rescued.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/07\/14\/man-survives-18-hours-at-sea-by-clinging-on-to-football-lost-on-beach-16997110\/\">local reports<\/a>, Ivan and a friend, Martin Jovanovski, got caught up in strong currents near the coast and were swept away \u2014 and although several friends who had gone to the beach with them quickly notified the Coast Guard of the situation, the two beach-goers were eventually declared \u201clost at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, July 11, \u2014 18 hours after his friends had seen the two men get whisked away by the current \u2014 rescuers were finally able to locate Ivan and a Greek Coast Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/photo-army-chopper-pilot-nails-insane-landing-to-airlift-injured-stranded-climber\/\">helicopter<\/a> was able to pull him from the water.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A man survived 18 hours at sea by holding onto a small inflatable ball. Ivan, 30, was visiting a beach in Greece when a powerful current pulled him out to sea along with a friend on July 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/baF8rn2YaN\">pic.twitter.com\/baF8rn2YaN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NowThis (@nowthisnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nowthisnews\/status\/1548005180179787778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Ivan when he was pulled from the sea was a small inflatable ball that he said he had used to stay afloat after it drifted toward him in the water. Even though the ball had not been fully inflated when it reached him, Ivan said it had been just enough to help him keep his head above the waves.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A tourist has survived being swept out to sea thanks to just a small inflatable ball \ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udfd0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get into it \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HWmTChvQDf\">https:\/\/t.co\/HWmTChvQDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Metro (@MetroUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetroUK\/status\/1547522909530476544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anastasia Chalkia, Mayor of Kassandra, posed with Ivan and his father \u2014 and the ball \u2014 after he was brought ashore. And as the photo began to circulate in the media, a woman recognized it as the same ball that her two sons had lost while playing on the beach ten days earlier.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He told local media the ball helped him float even though it was only partially inflated. First responders in helicopters ultimately found him after 18 hours in open water. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKiWIn0F0n\">pic.twitter.com\/uKiWIn0F0n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NowThis (@nowthisnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nowthisnews\/status\/1548005185754042368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her sons Tryphon, 11, and Thanos, 6, had lost their ball nearly two weeks earlier while playing on Evgatis Beach \u2014 on the Greek island of Lemnos \u2014 when the waves had swept it out of their reach and then out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the ball drifted another 80 miles \u2014 and, fortunately, into Ivan\u2019s path \u2014 in the ten days after the boys lost it on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan was treated at a nearby hospital and released, but his friend, Martin Jovanovski, was still lost at sea at the time he was rescued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a turn of events that played out like a real-life homage to the Tom Hanks movie \u201cCastaway,\u201d a partially-inflated ball played a starring role in saving a stranded swimmer. 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