The australian army explained that it had located Sunday, the three men on the island Pikelot, 190 km from the place where they had left three days earlier.
This is the kind of story that one tells to children without knowing if it had already arrived. And yet. Three sailors of Micronesia who had been shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Western Pacific were able to be rescued after aircraft in the australian and american had spotted the “SOS” giant that they had drawn on the beach.
The australian army explained that it had located Sunday, the three men on the island Pikelot, 190 km from the place where they had left three days earlier. The boat of seven meters to the edge of which they stood had fallen out of gas and had then drifted.
Alerted by the rescue Centre and coordination in the Pacific, based in Guam, had american and australian have been mobilized and spotted Sunday in the SOS. A helicopter was deployed from the australian vessel HMAS Canberra with food and water, ensuring that the three survivors were in good health. They were rescued by a patrol boat of Micronesia, said the australian army.
