A White Cayman is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 16, 2014.
A White Cayman is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 16, 2014. This 1.8 million hectares reserve is the largest National Park in Peru and is the home of about 1000 birds species and 200 mammals species among other animals, as reptiles and amphibians, and has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world, with more than 200 varieties of trees found in one hectare. Picture taken July 16, 2014. Reuters

A Pakistani sailor had jumped into crocodile-infested waters during Kakadu war games off the Northern Territory on Sep. 7 at 4.30 a.m. ACST.

He managed to avoid the crocodiles and swam away. His disappearance has caused many land, air and sea search teams to be formed to look out for him as well as questioning locals to see if they saw anything suspicious. He had jumped into the waters to seek refuge in Australia.

According to Business Insider, he was found safely in an isolated shed at Talc Head on the Cox Peninsula mangrove coast by the police. He was taken to Darwin and then the Australian immigration officials took over.

Brigadier Muhammad Asghar, the Defence Adviser to the Pakistan High Commission in Canberra, told ABC News that the Pakistani government wanted the sailor returned to them as soon as possible. The Pakistani sailor will mostly face disciplinary action, expulsion and criminal charges from the Pakistan Navy for 'absenting from a place of duty' if he is found guilty.

The Northern Territory Police Duty Superintendent, Helen Braam, also told ABC News that the man was found on Sep. 8 at about 11.00 pm in an isolated shed in Talc Head. Initially, a caretaker from a local YMCA had spotted him in a fairly remote area.

She added that a number of police were searching the area since he went missing and it was them who located him. He was provided with medical support and was checked by the custody nurse.

He was found in good health with just a few cuts and scratches despite claims of the locals that he would be struggling to survive as the Cox Peninsula mangrove coast was a known crocodile habitat.

The Royal Australian Navy has used Kakadu as a part of their Maritime warfare exercise and is considered the largest of the exercises as it includes more than a thousand people, eight warships and twenty-six aircrafts. Fifteen coalition forces are currently in Australia to conduct tactical warfare planning and cultural exchanges until Sep. 12 in Darwin. The forces belong to the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.

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