‘HELP’ Sign Leads Rescuers To Stranded Men After Week-Plus Stuck On Remote Pacific Island
3 males stranded on an unoccupied Pacific island endured for more than a week and utilized palm leaves to define HELP on the beach-- causing rescue by Navy and Coast Guard aviators who identified the indication from a number of thousand feet in the air.They had actually embarked March 31 in a 20-foot boat with an outboard motor from Pulawat Atoll, a little island with about an approximated 1,000 occupants in the Federated States of Micronesia about 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) east of the Philippines.The guys were fishing when they struck a reef, putting a hole in the boat's bottom and triggering it to handle water, Lt. Keith Arnold stated in a Coast Guard video.A Coast Guard ship, the Oliver Henry, got the males Tuesday and took them back to the atoll where they had actually set out 9 d...