What and you thought you would just magickly drift back home someday? I've been stuck on my jet ski its no fun and his statement makes no sense.
I see that Saidia IS a resort town in Morocco, and right at the border. Sucks if they truly were out for some fun and ran out of gas. (All of them? At once??)
Oh wait - he said “low on fuel”. That would seem to be a good time to motor on back to shore.