Many people use a float to wind down or to get over jet-lag -- as a deeply relaxing float has much in common with a deep sleep.

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The basic idea being to float a shell company in London, raise some cash, then use the cash and the float to reverse in some large but foreign and privately owned resource company.

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Media accounts of the incident said the man confessed that he was visiting Yangon on a tourist visa and was staying at a hotel when he swam through the lake using a 5-liter water bottle, presumably to use as a float.

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