Article: Underwater sailor; Yacht woman aged 72 is sucked under a car ferry then 'bobs up like a cork' on the other side.

Byline: GORDON RAYNER

IT was the kind of experience that would shatter the nerves of young daredevil sailors everywhere.

But 72-year- old Pamela Steward yesterday appeared with barely a hair out of place to tell of her death-defying underwater struggle after her yacht sank in a collision with a ferry.

For 90 agonising seconds, she was battered by a vicious ebb tide that dragged her down beneath the ferry.

With barely enough time to snatch a lungful of air before she went under, the retired radiographer thought she was on the edge of death as she fought and failed to claw her way to the surface.

But then the tide which had ...

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