Posted on 02/19/2020 10:35:47 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Chinese student who survived in flooded and dense Gold Coast bushland for five days used an empty milk bottle in a life-preserving bid to collect water.
Yang Chen went missing on Wednesday last week while walking with a friend in the Tallebudgera Valley.
A Chinese student who survived in flooded and dense Gold Coast bushland for five days used an empty milk bottle in a life-preserving bid to collect water.
Despite losing her shoes and surviving in caves, Chen has no serious health concerns.
Brailsford said Chen jokingly credited survival and adventure-style TV shows for helping her stay alive.
Her parents acknowledged and thanked the rescuers and hospital staff through Mr Brailsford’s statement.
Yang Chen went missing on Wednesday last week while walking with a friend in the Tallebudgera Valley.
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She was found by water police near Gorge Falls on Monday.
She had spent five nights sheltering in caves and had used a discarded milk bottle to gather water.
Sergeant Mitch Gray from Gold Coast Water Police said Chen was able to keep up hydration during her ordeal by filling the two-litre milk container each day.
Gray said police were becoming increasingly concerned, especially with creeks in the region flooding.
“As these things start getting into the last day you start getting worried,” he said.
“You can train a lot to plan for these things but there is an element of luck and a will to live.”
The 26-year-old Bond University student and her friend became separated trying to climb over boulders.
When she tried to walk back to the car park, she panicked when the track she was following ended, Gray said.
Police divers scaled a cliff face near Gorge Falls before she was found.
Parents ‘ecstatic’
After her ordeal, she contacted her parents in China, Bond University vice-chancellor Tim Brailsford said.
“Yang and I phoned her parents in China who were ecstatic with the news, and overwhelmed with gratitude,” Brailsford said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Yang is in surprisingly good spirits and health considering the extraordinary and traumatic experience she has been through.”
First question, was she ever in Wuhan?
Rough country.
Good outcome, and a reminder why one should never go out without a a basic survival kit.
Drinking from flooded creeks is a great way to catch dozens of parasites or lethal bacterial diseases.
OK, I give up. What is that?
Yeah - that’s what I was thinking, too. But it’s a quandary - die from lack of water (3 days is about it), or die from dysentery/diarrhea, etc... ?
People stranded on a boat in the ocean will eventually drink salt water. I guess at some point you don’t have much choice.
She was found by water police near Gorge Falls on Monday.
She had spent five nights sheltering in caves and had used a discarded milk bottle to gather water.
Everything in Australia wants to kill people.
She is lucky they did not want any Chinese food....
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