[WildHighlander57]

Smokingfrog, good point here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428362/posts?page=403#403

If that’s the case (fuddy alive (albeit barely**)) when rescued, then there would be no need to have previously swapped her for a smuggled mannikin.

**See bottom two pix here (h/t rx), one where she’s upright, then other where she’s laying flat

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428362/posts?page=247#247

[Fantasywriter]

‘Rescue swimmer Mark Peer said when he swam to Fuddy, she was unresponsive and he couldn’t find a pulse. ‘It was not a good feeling,’ he said.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523417/Health-director-released-Obamas-birth-certificate-clung-deputys-hand-final-moments-life-Hawaii-plane-crash.html