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 SEMARANG, Indonesia (AP) - Suyatno spent four days at sea, clinging to his 6-year-old son and praying rescuers would reach them after an Indonesian ferry packed with hundreds of passengers capsized in a violent storm.
"Even though I was weak, I never let go of my boy," said Suyatno after a navy search team found him, his son, Anggi, and 10 other exhausted survivors on an offshore oil rig and brought them to shore Wednesday. One of them is believed to be the captain of the ferry and he was being questioned by navy officers, navy spokesman Lt. Col. Tony Syaiful said Thursday.
They survived on dry bread and emergency military rations found drifting in the stormy Java Sea, until being picked up some 120 miles from where the ferry went down late Friday.
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