Jeans saves German Sailor from Drowning!

Though it was just impossible to get rescued from the state where Murke was but his the denim he was wearing turned into a flotation device for him.

“I was dragged next to the boat for one or two seconds down in the water, but then the rope got loose luckily, and I was floating in the water not wearing any life jacket. Just my T-shirt, my jeans, that was all,” Murke told the New Zealand Herald . “My brother started directly to get me but the swell was like three metres. He threw a life jacket with a rope overboard. I couldn’t reach that, it was already too far away. Then I think the motor exploded,” he added.

Murke’s brother immediately sent out an emergency alert for his rescue but the Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter Service was able to track him after 3 hours.

When he began drifting away from the boat, he thought of a trick he had learned some time back. “I took a deep breath, took out my jeans, made knots at the end of the legs and inflated the jeans; pull it over water and get air inside and then push it under water — I had like an improvised life vest,” he told the newspaper. “Without the jeans, I wouldn’t be here today. They were really the thing that saved me.”

The Facebook page of the helicopter service shared a video of the rescue along with a caption.