Three teenagers lost at sea for 50 days, found alive!
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Three teens who have been missing in the South Pacific for 50 days — and were already eulogized in a memorial service — have been found alive by a New Zealand fishing boat.
The boys — two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old — disappeared while attempting to row between two islands in the New Zealand territory of Tokelau in early October and were given up for dead after an extensive search involving New Zealand’s air force.
Their craft had drifted 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to a desolate part of the Pacific northeast of Fiji, when the crew of a tuna boat saw them frantically waving for help on Wednesday afternoon.
…The rescue came not a moment too soon: Fredricsen said they had begun to drink sea water because it hadn’t rained in the past few nights.
He said that the boys survived by catching fish and eating a seagull that had landed on their boat.
Thoughts:
- Do they celebrate Thanksgiving in New Zealand? Because that’s something to be thankful for!
- I wonder if they’d already drawn straws to see which one of them was going to be eaten.
- Hollywood and literary agents everywhere are clamping handkerchiefs to their mouths to stop the drool from getting on their suits.
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That is an amazing story. You just don’t hear about people surviving that long in those circumstances.