Three Teenagers Rescued after Drifting in Pacific for 50 Days
Three teenagers from the Tokelau islands disappeared on October
5 while rowing in the Pacific. After an extensive search by the
New Zealand air force, the boys' families held memorial
services. Yesterday, they were found alive by a fishing boat.
It's a Thanksgiving miracle! I mean, if Kiwis or Tokelauans
celebrated Thanksgiving, it would be. Fifteen-year-olds Samuel
Pelesa and Filo Filo and 14-year-old Edward Nasau had been
trying to row between two of the atolls that comprise Tokelau, a
territory of New Zealand, when they drifted off course and
disappeared. After weeks of fruitless searches, they were given
up for dead.  And then they turned up in their tiny aluminum
boat, somewhere northeast of Fiji. They had survived for 50 days
on fish, rainwater, and a single seagull that had landed in
their boat. Good timing on the rescue too: They had begun to
drink seawater as it hadn't rained for a few days.  The boys
were spotted by a New Zealand fishin