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50 days adrift at sea!
Three teenage boys set adrift for 50 days in a small boat in the South Pacific survived on coconuts, a seagull they managed to catch and by drinking rain and then sea water, rescuers said on Friday.
"They are in incredibly good shape for the time they have been at sea. Somehow they caught a bird, I don't know how, but they caught it. They ate it, that is what is recommended (in survival manuals)," Fredricsen told New Zealand media.
The boys, from the New Zealand territory of Tokelau, disappeared from its Atafu atoll on October 6.
After an extensive air and sea search failed to find the teenagers, their families became convinced they had died at sea, and two weeks ago held a memorial service for them on the tiny coral atoll, a Maritime New Zealand spokesman said on Friday.
Etueni Nasau, 14, Samu Pelesa, 15, and Filo Filo, 15, drifted 1,300 km (800 miles) across an empty, and little traveled, section of the Pacific Ocean.
The Tokelau Islands consist of three small atolls in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
There's more to the story in the link below. Just so glad they were found alive.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101126/...ific_survivors
"They are in incredibly good shape for the time they have been at sea. Somehow they caught a bird, I don't know how, but they caught it. They ate it, that is what is recommended (in survival manuals)," Fredricsen told New Zealand media.
The boys, from the New Zealand territory of Tokelau, disappeared from its Atafu atoll on October 6.
After an extensive air and sea search failed to find the teenagers, their families became convinced they had died at sea, and two weeks ago held a memorial service for them on the tiny coral atoll, a Maritime New Zealand spokesman said on Friday.
Etueni Nasau, 14, Samu Pelesa, 15, and Filo Filo, 15, drifted 1,300 km (800 miles) across an empty, and little traveled, section of the Pacific Ocean.
The Tokelau Islands consist of three small atolls in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
There's more to the story in the link below. Just so glad they were found alive.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101126/...ific_survivors
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