Eight days drifted down the endless stretch of the Pacific Ocean, not knowing if he would ever get home again. Thrown twice into the water by huge waves and left without the ability to start the boat's engine, a Cook Islands fisherman says that hope and faith helped him resist until the time he was observed and saved by the intervention teams, shows The Guardian in a report.
Eight days drifted down the endless stretch of the Pacific Ocean, not knowing if he would ever get home again. Thrown twice into the water by huge waves and left without the ability to start the boat's engine, a Cook Islands fisherman says that hope and faith helped him resist until the time he was observed and saved by the intervention teams, shows The Guardian in a report.
For eight days, alone in the vast Pacific Ocean, Junior Apiuta Apiuta fought with huge waves, the chilling cold and the thought that he might never see his family again.