Authorities recounted her miraculous survival, noting that the child was “responsive” when crew members aboard the Trotamar III arrived, despite her having “no drinking water or food” for three days and was “suffering from hypothermia.”

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was the only person rescued after a migrant boat believed to have 45 people on board sank.

The girl from Sierra Leone was the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, rescuers said. Dozens of migrants likely died when their boat sank in a storm.

An 11-year-old girl survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Once the boat sunk, the young girl created makeshift life rings that she held onto for three days before CompassCollective found her off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa on Dec.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued after surviving three days alone at sea following a deadly shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa, a rescue charity reported Wednesday (December 11, 2024). She was the only person to survive the tragic incident.

Collective.org The ocean is no joke, and it's drowned more than one man who thought he was strong and resilient. That makes it all the more remarkable that this preteen survived. One 11-year-old girl survived a shipwreck and three days adrift at sea thanks to her wits and some quick thinking.