our paulene chu spoke to some of them. >> reporter: pure luck and determination. i'm outside the hospital where several survivors are still recovering. one survivor is 71-year-old on the ferry with her friends for a holiday, watching tv in a big common room when she felt a jolt and the room filled up with water it she swam towards to some cabinets and tried to climb them like a staircase. here's what happened next. >> translator: i didn't have enough strength to clip up. the young man in front of me pulled me up and said, hold on tight. then when we got to the top of the cabinets, i saw the window. a man near me was banging on the window with a life jacket and somebody saw us. then they turned the rescue boat toward us. >> reporter: there is another survivor story with a bittersweet ending. 6-year-old was traveling with her parents and 7-year-old brother. her brother put a life jacket on