British pensioner who SWAM to catch a cruise ship which had left port without her. Susan Brown, 6. 5, (pictured) was pulled from the water off the coast of Madeira shortly after midnight on Sunday with severe hypothermia after more than four hours swimming a third of a mile out to sea. This is the British holidaymaker rescued from the Atlantic after apparently trying to swim to a cruise liner while carrying her handbag. Susan Brown, 6. 5, was pulled from the ice- cold waters off the coast of Madeira shortly after midnight on Sunday with severe hypothermia after more than four hours swimming a third of a mile out to sea.

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She told rescuers she jumped into the water from beside the Portuguese island's airport believing her husband Michael had got back on board the Marco Polo cruise ship after both had disembarked earlier in the day following a blazing row. Watch Women In Trouble 4Shared. The pair cut short a 3. Jet flights to get them back to Bristol on Saturday evening after arriving on Madeira from the West Indies. After losing sight of her husband some time before boarding the jet home, Mrs Brown is said to have become convinced he had returned to the vessel. When the ship then passed the airport's coastal runway, she is reported to have taken to the water to make chase.

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Gripping her handbag, Mrs Brown made it more than 1,6. Her life was eventually saved by passing fishermen who heard her panicked screams for help shortly after midnight. It today emerged that Mrs Brown was singing at a local church shortly before the bizarre incident. She was pictured at an Easter mass with a candle in her hand during a service near the spot where she was rescued by fishermen just after midnight on Saturday. A fellow worshipper said she joined in the singing at Sao Pedro Church overlooking the Atlantic and celebrated Holy Eucharist.

Details of the moments leading up to the drama of Mrs Brown's sea rescue emerged as her husband Michael, 6. Shaftesbury, Dorset, after flying back home from Madeira alone. They parted company after cutting their cruise short when their ship Marco Polo docked in the island capital Funchal on Saturday morning on its way back to Bristol. Mrs Brown (circled) was pictured at an Easter mass with a candle in her hand during a service near the spot where she was later rescued by fishermen just after midnight on Saturday - but it suggests she was not in the water as long as originally thought. Watch The Burning Dead Online Mic. A British holidaymaker has been rescued from the Atlantic after apparently trying to swim to her cruise liner when it left port without her. Susan Brown, 6. 5, was pulled from the ice- cold waters with severe hypothermia after four hours swimming 1,6. Marco Polo (pictured)They took a taxi to the airport together before Mrs Brown jumped in the Atlantic in what she told police officers after her rescue was a desperate bid to swim to the ship because she mistakenly believed her husband had returned to the vessel. A church worshipper who asked not to be named told local paper Diario de Noticias the British tourist had turned heads by arriving at the small whitewashed church usually frequented only by locals around 7.

Saturday for a 9. She is said to have been spotted on a seawalk in front of the church at 1. Marco Polo left port for Lisbon. The worshipper said: 'She actively celebrated Holy Eucharist which started at 8pm and didn't leave the church till 9. She attended mass, sang and spent some time afterwards at the chapel.'During a brief conversation she had with a fellow churchgoer, she said she was staying on the Marco Polo.' Mrs Brown, a regular churchgoer in her home town, is still being cared for at a women's psychiatric centre in Funchal after being transferred late on Monday from a city hospital where she was treated for hypothermia on Saturday. Police said they had yet to receive permission from doctors to quiz her.

Brothers Leonardo and Carlos Correia and fellow fisherman Marildo Freitas yesterday claimed that they were the ones who had rescued Mrs Brown and said she was just half an hour from death when they pulled her from the chilly water.'I just saw her pale white face bobbing in the water,' Marildo told Mail. Online.'She was barely conscious – she's lucky to be alive – I don't think she would have lasted another 3. Mrs Brown is thought to have jumped into the water from beside Madeira Airport after believing her husband Michael - with whom she had argued - had got back on board when she lost sight of him. She did not make it to the vessel and was rescued four hours later'At first we thought she had fallen from the cruise ship.''She just said thank god, oh thank god when we found her – she was so cold she could hardly say anything, we just wrapped her up and phoned for help.''It was very scary seeing this white face bobbing above the water – it reminded me of the film Titanic at the end where people were drowning.'The three men said her small handbag probably saved her life as it had filled with air and acted as a buoyancy aid. According to Marildo, she was lucky that the sea was calm and that she was able to be seen thanks to the full moon. While authorities have not confirmed where Mrs Brown is thought to have jumped into the water, locals believe she entered the water very near the airport – where rocky steps lead down to the sea.  Funchal port captain Felix Marques told local press Mrs Brown had been a passenger on board the Marco Polo. He earlier explained how she was rescued 5.

Mrs Brown herself. Mrs Brown is believed to have tried to swim to the Marco Polo boat after reaching to the water from these steps, just next to Santa Cruz airport.

Marildo Freitas (left) and fellow fishermen brothers Carlos (middle) and Leonardo (right) Correia claim they were the ones that pulled Mrs Brown from the water. Speaking yesterday, Captain Marques said: 'The only version of Saturday night's events we have so far is that of the woman who was rescued from the sea.'She said at the hospital when she arrived that she and her husband had cut short their trip after arriving in Madeira on Saturday and had gone to the airport to buy two plane tickets to fly back to the UK with easy.

Jet that same day.'But she's said she lost contact with her husband at some point while at the airport and jumped in the sea to try to reach the ship after seeing it in the distance as it left port because she assumed he had changed his mind and was back on board.'Interpreting today's revelations, he added: 'I am aware of the reports about her attending a church mass and it knocks down the version of events she told my officers on Saturday about wanting to swim to the ship because she thought her husband had changed his mind about flying back to Britain and had taken a taxi back to the vessel.'To be honest it makes no sense and it could be related to the fact she was very confused at the time.'The Marco Polo crossed the area where she threw herself into the sea at 8. Satanic Panic Full Movie Part 1 there. The fishermen said the avid churchgoer was just 3. Mrs Brown was on her way to the airport to fly home before she allegedly changed her mind and began to swi'The ship would have been out of sight by the time the service finished, and much more so at 1. We haven't been able to speak to her again yet because we haven't got doctors' permission to do so and so we haven't been able to check the reports first- hand with her.'But if they are true then it means she wouldn't have been in the water as long as we initially thought.'Captain Marques said he has spoken with the captain of the Marco Polo who insisted he had no evidence of any rows or fights between Mr and Mrs Brown. The couple had been on the ship for four weeks before disembarking at the weekend. Local reports initially suggested the couple decided to call the trip short with only four days to go after becoming embroiled in an argument.

Portuguese police confirmed yesterday that Mr Brown had returned to Britain alone on Saturday night. There was no response at the couple's £3.

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