How five people survived a three-month, 4800km odyssey lost at sea
The Sydney Morning Herald · Zane Irwin ·
A boat in Micronesia went missing in July. This week, five of its passengers landed, unclothed and emaciated, on an island in Kiribati – thousands of kilometres away.
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New York: Tedwinson Paul had made the crossing before. At 31, he was the oldest of nine family members on a routine supply run to a nearby island in the Federated States of Micronesia.
What should have been a short jaunt back home in their six-metre skiff became a three-month, 4800-plus-kilometre odyssey across the ocean that left four of his kin, including a child, dead. He and the other survivors were rescued in the island nation of Kiribati on Sunday after nearly 100 days adrift, the latest journey in a long list of Pacific voyages gone fatally awry.
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