Nun swims mile
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to get help
A Roman Catholic nun swam fully clothed for a mile through open sea in Papua-New Guinea’s Sepik district recently to get help for five companions who were clinging to a capsized dug-out canoe.
The nun swam to an island and alerted villagers who rushed out in canoes to save the five other nuns. One of the nuns could not swim. She was held by the others while they waited to be rescued.
The six nuns had paddled the canoe 15 miles to an offshore island. They were capsized on the return voyage.