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How to bail a boat without a bailer

by Lee Mylchreest on 8 Jun 2014
How to bail a flooded boat without a bailer SW
When you're dinghy is half flooded, how do you set it right - a long period of tedious bailing? That's what most of us do. But on the Island of Mabul, off the south-eastern coast of Sabah in Malaysia, they are smarter than that. Watch here how a young girl saves her small brothers and sisters in an unusual way.

Thanks to Amir Azmi for being there to catch the video:

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