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Sam McKeith

Rescued rower 'in awe' after emotional return to land

Lithuanian rower Aurimas Mockus praised the 'good will of the Australian people' after his rescue. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Stuck in a sinking boat after battling cyclonic winds and mammoth waves, there were several times Aurimas Mockus thought he was going to die.

But a week later, he was embracing his wife on dry land after a rescue mission that carried him thousands of kilometres from where he was plucked out of the ocean off the Queensland coast.

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