‘SOS’ Signal Etched Into Sand Saves Three Men Marooned On Remote Pacific Island
The men had been missing for three days after running out of fuel and drifting 118 miles from home. Australian Defence ForceThe mariners were missing for three day before this Australian Army helicopter find them from Pikelot Island . It was July 29 , 2020 , when three challenging mariners set sail from Pulawat in the Federated States of Micronesia for the Pulatop atolls . While sail these 23 nautical miles across the westerly Pacific seemed wholly doable at first , the crew finally sail off class — and then ran out of fuel ....