11-Year-Old Girl Survives Shipwreck and 3 Days at Sea [Video]

One young girl survived a shipwreck off the Italian coast after being stranded at sea for three days, CompassCollective, a German charitable organization that performs sea rescue missions, said in a Dec. 11 press release.

The 11-year-old girl was believed to be on a metal boat, which was caught in a storm that lasted several days in the central Mediterranean Sea. The ship departed from Sfax, Tunisia, and was destroyed off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was caught in a storm with waves 11.5 feet high and sank, per the BBC. It is believed the remaining 45 passengers were all killed.

CompassCollective was already out on the water on its Trotamar III vessel conducting a different rescue operation when they heard the young girl shouting from the water at 3:20 a.m.

“It was an incredible coincidence that we heard the child’s voice despite the engine running,” skipper Matthias Wiedenlübbert said in …