<div id="subtitle">A look at people who survived disasters for many days without medical assistance</div><div><p>The remarkable story of Darlene Etienne's survival in a collapsed home for 15 days without medical assistance after the Haiti earthquake isn't the only one to have amazed doctors:</p><p>_ 16 days: Sales clerk Park Sung-Hyun, 19, survived under a collapsed shopping mall in 1995 in Seoul, South Korea.</p><p>_ 15 days: Construction worker Ari Afrizal survived on a raft at sea after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004.</p><p>_ 15 days: A 32-year-old fisherman and his brother and niece were rescued from their dinghy after surviving on raw fish and a bottle of water when Hurricane Pauline hit Mexico in 1997.</p><p>_ 14 days: Pedrito Dy was rescued in the basement of a quake-devastated Hyatt Hotel in the Philippines resort of Baguio in 1999.</p><p>_ 13 days: Three teenage friends who lost their way on Oregon's Mount Hood in 1976 survived after taking refuge inside a snow cave.</p><p>_ Nearly nine days: "Miracle babies" of the September 1985 Mexico City temblor survived in the rubble of two hospitals.</p><p>___</p><p>Sources: Associated Press reports, The Oregonian newspaper, Mexican television Televisa.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67995971&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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