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'How I was almost pirates' fourth victim.' South African sailor tells

10:11 PM Fri 12 Nov 2010 GMT

'An Achilles tendon saved Pater Olivier from being aboard the hijacked Coizil' .

When South African Peter Eldridge asked expatriate Peter Olivier living in Tanzania to accompany him on his yacht to South Africa, he was excited because he wanted to add more miles to his log book, never dreaming that the yacht would end up beached on a Somali shore and its crew captured or swimming for their life. A few weeks before the three set sail, Olivier had pulled his Achilles tendon while playing cricket. 'Even if I had wanted to go along, I couldn't because I needed surgery.' This is how the sailor told of his narrow escape in pulling ...

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