Shipwrecked Rabindranath Das floated for five days clingingon to a bamboo pole in the turbulent Bay of Bengal without food and life jacketbefore he was rescued by a Bangladeshi ship in Chittagong coast.

Das survived drinking solely water when it rained from July6 -when his trawler was drowned in the sea during a storm -to July 10, when hewas finally rescued by the crew of the ship MV Jawad.

Das hailing from Narayanpur in south 24 Parganas district's Kakdwip,was the master of the trawler FB Nayan.

He had set sail on July 4 along with 14 other fishermen who,however, could not make it through and drowned in the sea.

Das was later brought to Kolkata for treatment.