Newspaper cutting : "La Dépêche Australe" Saturday, May 11th 2002

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Miraculous fishing catch but tragic outcome
Rurutu : a woman saved from drowning throws herself overboard

M. Moana Ataora, member of the prestigious Fishing Cooperative Piareare, exclaims : "She looked hard to us, terrified, then she throwed herself overboard !" . During the night of thursday to friday, M. Ataora and his nephew were fishing in the Tauraatua Pass, North-East of Rurutu Island. How surprised they have been, when they found a woman trapped in their fishing net !
The fisherman declares :" Her arms and her legs were covered with cuts, and I thought that she was lucky not to have been attacked by a shark"
Mathias Laurent.
Unfortunately, the young women has been saved in vain : Extricated from the net by the two men, she straight throwed herself overboard, and vanished in the darkness and the depths of the ocean.
Blast of madness, or suicidal tendencies ? The young woman carried her secret with her.
The investigations to find her have been continued until friday afternoon. But at night, in the R. Diving Center who participated at the search with two rubber dinghy, the policemen and the divers agreed that the woman, probably worn-out, drowned.
From this tragic appearance remains only a tuft of the unknown woman's light brown hair, twisted in the stitches of the net.