This is the moment a missing British woman makes desperate help hand signals to a passing ship after being located following nearly five days adrift at sea with a huge search operation in place to find her.
Police and coastguards started hunting for Mary Gavin, 39, last Wednesday evening around 36 hours after she vanished on a rented boat she had hired a day earlier on the paradise island of Formentera.
She was rescued alive late Saturday afternoon after a ferry covering the route from the Majorcan capital Palma to the mainland east coast city of Valencia spotted her and raised the alarm.
Today one of the passengers on the boat that discovered the missing woman recalled the dramatic moment they neared her as she called out for help, saying: 'She was dehydrated and sunburnt and had mouth sores.
'The waves complicated the rescue.'
