WELLINGTON: A Polish round-the-world yachtsman had to be convinced of the “gravity of the situation” before he agreed to be rescued from his stricken craft in a remote part of Pacific Ocean Sunday, New Zealand authorities said.
A Polish speaker was taken on a four-hour flight from New Zealand to persuade him to abandon his craft.
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