Reports the Associated Press -- "Three teenage boys who spent 50 days adrift in a tiny boat in the South Pacific walked ashore on shaky legs Friday after their chance rescue -- celebrated on their home island hundreds of miles (kilometers) away as a miracle that brought them back from the dead ... The boys (are) recovering from their ordeal in a military hospital."
The boys had set off on Oct 5th from their home island to one nearby, and their boat went adrift.
Tai Fredricsen, the first mate of the tuna boat that rescued the teens, said the boys told him that they had "just two coconuts with them when they set out. During their ordeal, they drank rainwater that collected in the boat and ate fish they had caught. Once, they managed to grab a bird that landed on the boat and they devoured that. The rescue came not a moment too soon. Fredricsen said they had begun to drink sea water because it hadn't rained in the past few nights."
This will probably be a movie. It is such a great story. It probably has already been a movie.