RSS Feeds  3-day trip becomes 3-week ordeal for 2 Jamaicans
Sunday - 12/23/2012, 8:20am  ET  Associated Press  SAN JUAN,
Puerto Rico (AP) -- It was supposed to be a three-day fishing
trip at most. It turned into a three-week ordeal, drifting under
an intense sun for hundreds of miles in the Caribbean in a small
boat with a broken motor.  The two Jamaican fishermen survived
by eating raw fish they caught and drinking water from melted
ice they had brought to preserve their catch. The Colombian navy
finally plucked them from the sea a week ago and delivered them
home Saturday after treating them for severe dehydration,
malnutrition and hypothermia.  Everton Gregory, 54, and John
Sobah, 58, recounted their story in a telephone interview from
Jamaica, while the boat owner and the men's employer also
provided details.  The men set off from Jamaica's southeastern
coast on Nov. 20. The water was glassy, the wind was calm and
their boat was laden with 14 buckets of ice, 16 gallons of water
and several bags of cereal