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‘I want to survive’: Malaysian commando adrift in South China Sea for 15 hours

“I want to survive.” That was uppermost in Senior Seaman Michael Coccon Johen’s mind while he was drifting in the South China Sea, hours after a free-fall parachute training exercise went wrong. Johen, 27, was one of six Malaysian navy special forces personnel who landed in the sea on August 12 after missing their designated landing site at Pulau Layang-Layang, off Sabah’s coast. It happened…

‘I want to survive’: Malaysian commando adrift in South China Sea for 15 hours

We haven't written up this one. South China Morning Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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