An Indonesian teenager spent 49 days at sea in a
fishing hut before he was spotted by a Panamanian-flagged vessel.
In July, Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working as a lamp keeper,
lighting lamps to attract
fish to the floating
fishing hut moored off shore from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, when the line tethering him snapped in a vicious storm.
Adilang was then set adrift, carried over 1,500 miles by the tides until he was rescued off the coast of the U.S. territory of
Guam.
The teen survived by catching
fish to eat and drinking seawater that he filtered through his
clothing to reduce the amount of
salt in it.
He said more than 10 ships passed him by during his time at sea before one saw him and stopped on Aug. 31.
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