Bad Day Fishing Nets 4 Million Bucks

An update to a story I wrote about here. The Mexican fishermen who drifted across the Pacific Ocean for 9 months may get big cash for selling their story for a movie deal.

From Reuters here:

Three Mexicans who spent nine months drifting across the Pacific Ocean in a flimsy fishing boat eating raw fish and sea birds are to be paid at least $3.8 million to turn their story into a movie.

The men were feared lost when their 25-foot (8-meter) fiberglass boat ran into trouble off Mexico’s Pacific coast last November.

As their families gave them up for dead, they drifted more than 5,000 miles before being picked up in August by a Taiwanese tuna trawler near the remote Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.

The three had survived by catching birds and fish to eat and drinking rainwater — and occasionally their own urine.