Posted on 05/04/2016 9:36:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Four men have been rescued after spending nearly a month adrift in the Pacific surviving on fish after their boat was blown off course by a storm.
The men, given a clean bill of health on arrival in the Marshall Islands, were dropped off in the capital Majuro by a fishing trawler which found their small wooden boat several hundred kilometres (miles) south of the city.
Tatika Ukenio, Boiti Tetinauiko, Bonibai Akau and Moamoa Kamwea told officials they left their home in Kiribati, an island nation more than 650 kilometres (400 miles) from the Marshalls, on March 23.
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Did one of them happen to have a teddy bear, stuffed with thousand dollar bills...? ;)
“A three-hour tour....a three-hour tour....”
Eating isn’t a problem - but where did they get fresh water??
...survived on their supply of vowels.
Must have had some luck with rain.
You can get some moisture from the eyeballs of fish too.
A solar cooker would have been a useful piece of cargo.
Fisherman do this quite a bit. Swallow or consume the liver of a fish. This is standard initiation of a deckhand on a fishing boat.
I could not do it, so I was merely thrown overboard close to land. I never passed that test.
I’ve actually BEEN to Kiribati! A tiny atoll about 400 miles from Hawaii......
Probably met these guys - whole population is like......20?
On a Norwegian Cruse lines cruise that had to hit a foreign port before returning to a cruise of the Hawaiian islands.......
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