9 Jun 2008:
British diving survivors OK, leave clinic
James Manning, 30, and Charlotte
Allin, 25, have checked out from the hotel they were staying at in
Labuhan Bajo, a town on the western tip of Flores island. "They came
back from the clinic this afternoon and immediately checked out. A
friend of theirs took them to another island, but I do not know which
one," the receptionist said.
The Britons were part of a group
of five divers found stranded Saturday on a small island in a national
park reserve where the Komodo dragon lives, after being swept away by
strong currents during a dive off Labuhan Bajo on Thursday.
Doctors had asked them to recuperate at the clinic for two days, said local policeman, Viktor Jemadu.
"They were suffering from dehydration and besides that, two days of
rest would also help heal the lacerations they suffered, from corals
and stones and from the tight bind they were linked with to stay
together," Jemadu said.
Another one of the survivors, a
Swedish woman, was still registered at the hotel in Labuhan Bajo and
had returned from the clinic, but she could not be immediately reached
by telephone.
A British woman, who led the dive, and a French
man, who was in the group, were staying at an island some 30 minutes
away by boat from Labuhan Bajo, the receptionist said. There are no
telephone links to the island.
The French survivor, Laurent
Pinel, said the group had to fight off one dragon with rocks and
scavenged for shellfish as they waited to be rescued from the island in
the Komodo National Park, east of Bali.
Most of the stranded
divers stuck close to the pebbled beach until they were spotted by
national park rangers some 40 hours after they disappeared.
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