TWO men have been rescued after 29 days at sea, and when prompted on their experience, they were refreshingly honest. “It was a nice break from everything,” one of the men admitted, after a month of surviving on pre-packed oranges, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected. The two...
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TWO men have been rescued after 29 days at sea, and when prompted on their experience, they were refreshingly honest.
“It was a nice break from everything,” one of the men admitted, after a month of surviving on pre-packed oranges, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected.
The two Solomon Islanders floated about 400 kilometres in the Solomon Sea before being rescued, after their GPS tracker stopped working off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
The two men set out from Mono Island on 03 Sep in a small, single 60 horsepower motorboat.
Just a few hours into their journey, they encountered heavy rain and strong winds, which made it hard to see the coastline they were supposed to be following.
After turning the engine off to save fuel, they floated about 400km northwest for 29 days, eventually spotting a fisherman off the coast of New Britain.
The men were so weak that when they arrived in the town of Pomio earlier this month they had to be carried off the boat and to a nearby house.
It is not known whether the men were attempting to take social distancing to the extreme.
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