Indonesia ? Fifteen people who spent nine days on a life raft after their ferry sank in the Java Sea – sharing emergency rations of food and water – were plucked from the water after the crew of a passing ship saw them waving for help.

One in the group – an 18-year-old – died hours after the rescue, which came Sunday after the life raft drifted 370 miles from where the Indonesian ferry carrying more than 600 people sank in stormy weather.

Baiman, a 25-year-old construction material supplier who was taken to the hospital as soon as he reached land, said Monday that four of the ferry’s crew members were among those on the life raft.

About 245 people have been found alive since the ferry sank after being pummeled by 12-foot-high waves just before midnight Dec. 29, but only 13 bodies have been recovered.