Authorities suspect the dead man was Ruihan Yu, who tried to row across the Pacific Ocean by himself, and was last spotted in distress on November 27, 2019, near the Marshall Islands.
BEACHED VESSEL. This ocean rowboat was found on the beach on Kinapusan Island in Tawi-Tawi on April 24, 2020, near a dead body suspected to be the adventurer Ruihan Yu, who had been missing since the end of November 2019. Photo from AFP Western Mindanao Command
Marine troopers from the battalion’s Bentawlan Detachment, municipal police, and barangay responders went to the site and found the decapitated body in a blue diving suit lying on a rock on the shoreline, said the military’s Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi commander Colonel Arturo Rojas in a media release on Friday, May 1.
Authorities suspect the body and the rowboat drifted on the current from the Celebes Sea until they were washed ashore on Kinapusan Island. The US Coast Guard dispatched a C-130 plane from Honolulu, Hawaii to rescue Yu, and it arrived and spotted him more than 7 hours later. The crew dropped a life raft for Yu but the plane had to refuel immediately. When it returned to the area, the crew spotted the life raft but not Yu or his rowboat.
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