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Man Rescued After Week Adrift, Survives on Crabs

6/13/2026

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  • After slipping on a fruit peel and drifting a week off Hainan’s coast, Qin Jianping, a citizen, was rescued by Fisherman Zheng Shizhong and Fisherman Fu Tingsan on 2 June.
  • He survived by catching and eating raw crabs, but doctors diagnosed dehydration and an inflamed digestive system from the diet.
  • His wife, who arrived in Hainan, said she had accepted his death and kept three bottles of seawater as a memento.