A missing tourist from China survived for more than a week after getting swept into the sea. 39-year-old Qin Jianping revealed he managed to survive by eating raw crabs.
According to China Daily, the tourist fell into the water near a cliff in Hainan Province. Somehow, he didn't drown despite not having a life jacket. Apparently, after a day of treading water, he was able to climb onto a floating maritime buoy. That ultimately helped to save his life.
But he was unable to swim to shore.
"For every meter I swam toward the land, the waves pushed me three or four meters back," he told state media outlet China Xinhua News. "Urine is a stream of warm heat. I curled into a ball and tried to preserve every bit of warmth."
"When we found him, he told us, 'I think I'm dying,' " fisherman Fu Tingsan told the Global Times. "I told him, 'You're not going to die. You've run into fishermen. We'll get you home.' "
Despite losing 22 pounds, the man will make a recovery.
"I had already accepted that my husband was gone," Jianping's wife told China Daily. "I filled three bottles with seawater to take home as a memento."
As for his survival, he says he never gave up hope.
"No matter how dangerous or hopeless things get, if you keep a steady mind, you can get through it," he told the outlet.
