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PHUKET, Thailand, Mar 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- An Australian woman adrift for five days drank her own urine and hung by rope into the sea to avoid the sun as she awaited rescue in the Straits of Malacca.
Dominique Courteille was released from a hospital in Phuket, Thailand, Tuesday after being treated for severe sunburn and exhaustion.
"I knew I was going to be rescued. I knew I was not going to die this time -- it was a very strong feeling," she told the Melbourne Herald Sun. She was rescued by Indonesian fishermen.
The Belgian-born Courteille, a mother of four, was rowing back to her anchored yacht in a dinghy from an evening ashore on the island of Lipe in the Andaman chain when high winds pushed her off course.
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