Posted on 12/11/2011 6:40:20 PM PST by george76
TWO Kiribati fishermen have recounted their struggle for survival while drifting for 33 days in the Pacific before being washed ashore on a remote atoll and solving a 50-year family mystery.
Uein Buranibwe, 53, and Temaei Tontaake, 26, told of their ordeal today when they arrived in the Marshall Island's capital Majuro from Namdrik Atoll, 560km from their Kiribati home
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After a month adrift their craft was washed into Namdrik, an isolated Marshall's atoll with a population of about 600 where the first residents they met took them to the only person on the island who spoke their language.
They were delighted to discover she was a descendant of Tontaake's uncle Bairo who was lost at sea from Marakei in the 1950s, landed at Namdrik and stayed, marrying into the community.
"Now we know what happened to my uncle," said Tontaake.
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