Two men lost at sea rescued after nearly a month say, 'It was a nice break from reality’
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Two men from Solomon Islands were rescued off the coast of Papua New Guinea around 29 days after they got stranded at sea. Here's what happened next.
In a bizarre case of a couple of castaways enjoying a break 'from reality, two men from Solomon Islands were rescued off the coast of Papua New Guinea – 400 kilometres away from where their journey began.
Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni of Mono Island, in Western province of Solomon Islands set out on the morning of the September 3 in a small, single 60 horsepower motorboat. They got stranded after their GPS tracker stopped working and survived around 29 days lost at sea.
Nanjikana took a positive look at the situation calling it a forced break from the chaos of a global pandemic. “I had no idea what was going on while I was out there. I didn’t hear about Covid or anything else,” he said. “I look forward to going back home but I guess it was a nice break from everything.”