Real Bad Day Fishing

They say a bad day fishing is better than the best day working. I dunno anymore. Three men just got back from fishing- Nine Months after they left. They had engine problems and drifted for 5000 miles to the Marshall Islands before being rescued by a fishing trawler.

From the BBC here:

Three Mexican fishermen who say they spent about nine months drifting across the Pacific Ocean have been rescued.

The three men said they survived on rain water, sea birds and fish after the engine on their eight-metre (25ft) boat broke down.

They were eventually picked up by a Taiwanese tuna trawler close to the Marshall Islands on 9 August.

A trip to catch shark off the Mexican Pacific coast turned into a 5,000-mile (8,000km) ordeal, they said.

The three men, identified as Salvador Ordonez, Jesus Vidana and Lucio Rendon, are all from the Mexican town of San Blas.

Their fibreglass boat, equipped with two 200 horsepower outboard motors, ran into trouble soon after setting out from the state of Nayarit.

“We ate raw seagulls, ducks and fish. We ate everything raw – any fish that came near the boat we grabbed it and gulped it down,” Jesus Vidana told Televisa channel in an interview late Tuesday.

“We drank rain water because it rained every day,” he said. “Twice we almost sank. The waves washed into the boat and we thought we were going to die.”

The three shipwrecked mates took turns reading the Bible and praying together.

These guys were idiots. They not only ventured out in a boat with a shoddy motor, but they apparently neglected to bring along a radio too. The radio is the primary safety tool for any boat.