Posted on 11/26/2010 8:08:25 AM PST by kingattax
SUVA, Fiji – Three teenage boys who spent 50 days adrift in a tiny boat in the South Pacific walked ashore on shaky legs Friday after their chance rescue — celebrated on their home island hundreds of miles (kilometers) away as a miracle that brought them back from the dead.
The trio — Samuel Pelesa and Filo Filo, both 15, and Edward Nasau, 14 — told rescuers they survived on rainwater they collected, a handful of coconuts, raw fish and a seagull that landed on their 12-foot- (3.5-meter-) long aluminum boat.
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Seagull Soup
After what I ate yesterday, I need a diet like that for a couple of weeks
Seagull; winged Rat.
there might be Fiji Fried Seagull franchises popping up all over the south Pacific.
>>adrift in a tiny boat in the South Pacific
“Still no sign of land! How long is it?”
“That’s rather a personal question, sir!”
—Monty Python
“Uuuuggghhh! With a gammy leg?”
Probably a hoax of some sort.....
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