<p>In a turn of events that played out like a real-life homage to the Tom Hanks movie &#8220;Castaway,&#8221; a partially-inflated ball played a starring role in saving a stranded swimmer.</p>
<p>A North-Macedonian vacationer known only as Ivan, 30, was reportedly swept out to sea on July 10, while swimming with friends near Myti Beach in Kassandra, Greece — but a child&#8217;s toy came to the rescue just in time, allowing him to survive some 18 hours alone in the water before he was rescued.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/14/man-survives-18-hours-at-sea-by-clinging-on-to-football-lost-on-beach-16997110/">local reports</a>, Ivan and a friend, Martin Jovanovski, got caught up in strong currents near the coast and were swept away — and although several friends who had gone to the beach with them quickly notified the Coast Guard of the situation, the two beach-goers were eventually declared &#8220;lost at sea.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Sunday, July 11, — 18 hours after his friends had seen the two men get whisked away by the current — rescuers were finally able to locate Ivan and a Greek Coast Guard <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/photo-army-chopper-pilot-nails-insane-landing-to-airlift-injured-stranded-climber/">helicopter</a> was able to pull him from the water.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A man survived 18 hours at sea by holding onto a small inflatable ball. Ivan, 30, was visiting a beach in Greece when a powerful current pulled him out to sea along with a friend on July 10. <a href="https://t.co/baF8rn2YaN">pic.twitter.com/baF8rn2YaN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) <a href="https://twitter.com/nowthisimpact/status/1548005180179787778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>With Ivan when he was pulled from the sea was a small inflatable ball that he said he had used to stay afloat after it drifted toward him in the water. Even though the ball had not been fully inflated when it reached him, Ivan said it had been just enough to help him keep his head above the waves.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A tourist has survived being swept out to sea thanks to just a small inflatable ball 🌊🏐</p>
<p>Let&#39;s get into it 👇<a href="https://t.co/HWmTChvQDf">https://t.co/HWmTChvQDf</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Metro (@MetroUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1547522909530476544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Anastasia Chalkia, Mayor of Kassandra, posed with Ivan and his father — and the ball — after he was brought ashore. And as the photo began to circulate in the media, a woman recognized it as the same ball that her two sons had lost while playing on the beach ten days earlier.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">He told local media the ball helped him float even though it was only partially inflated. First responders in helicopters ultimately found him after 18 hours in open water. <a href="https://t.co/uKiWIn0F0n">pic.twitter.com/uKiWIn0F0n</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) <a href="https://twitter.com/nowthisimpact/status/1548005185754042368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Her sons Tryphon, 11, and Thanos, 6, had lost their ball nearly two weeks earlier while playing on Evgatis Beach — on the Greek island of Lemnos — when the waves had swept it out of their reach and then out to sea.</p>
<p>Somehow the ball drifted another 80 miles — and, fortunately, into Ivan&#8217;s path — in the ten days after the boys lost it on June 30.</p>
<p>Ivan was treated at a nearby hospital and released, but his friend, Martin Jovanovski, was still lost at sea at the time he was rescued.</p>

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