CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two desperate, dehydrated men found bobbing in a bathtub-sized cooler off Australia told authorities they spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank, officials said Tuesday. There was no sign of 18 other crew members. Authorities were amazed that the men, from the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, were spotted by a routine customs service flight that patrols for far larger craft such as illegal trawlers in Australia’s northern waters. The men, 22 and 24, were rescued by helicopter Saturday. –Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Two men survive 25 days at sea in bathtub-sized cooler
By The Associated Press
January 21, 2009