The mystery man who's fighting for life in Wellington Hospital after being rescued from the sea at Eastbourne on Monday has finally been identified.
He's a foreign student in his twenties from India.
An interpreter is now helping police to contact his family.
Detective Sergeant Grant Carroll says the breakthrough came when a New Zealander attending a conference in Sri Lanka contacted police to say he recognised the man's photo after it had been published on a news website.
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