NRI sailor rescued after 3 days

A Briton of Indian origin has been saved after drifting on a raft for three days after his boat sank off Balearic Islands in Spain.Forty-three-year-old Jayesh Patel was sailing on his yacht Umbalika with a Belgian friend when it sank. The two of them managed to escape on an inflatable life raft and spent the next four days and three nights being tossed on the sea and survived on emergency rations of dry biscuits and drinking water. Mr Patel’s wife Louise raised an alarm from their home in north London after she didn’t recieve any news of her husband for 24 hours. "It was a very frightening experience," Mr Patel said.