After nearly a year drifting in the Pacific, three Mexican fishermen were found 5,500 miles from San Blas, Mexico, from where they departed last October. A tuna trawler found the men about a week ago near the Marshall Islands. From The Independent:
After having engine problems soon after they left their home port, it seems the men were steadily pushed west across the ocean and were lost for 11 months. They apparently survived on a diet of rainwater, raw fish and seabirds. “We fished, and we ate the fish raw … because there was no fire to cook with,” Jesus Vidana, 27, told Mexico’s Televisa news network…
Reports said that two other crew members had jumped overboard and presumably perished soon after they encountered engine problems.
The survivors said they read the Bible as their 27ft fibreglass boat drifted. At least once they had to endure more than two weeks without food but there was drinking water because it rained every day. “Sometimes our stomachs would hurt, because we would go up to 15 days without eating,” said Mr Vidana. “There were times when we had only one bird to share among the three of us.”