Three Men Rescued From Remote Island in the Pacific Ocean After Spelling Out ‘HELP’ on the Beach With Palms
This story sounds like something out of a movie but it is all too real.
Three men set out to fish on a small skiff. They were headed from one small island to an even smaller one in Micronesia, but they ended up crashing on yet another small island called Pikelot, that looks like the setting for a story like Robinson Crusoe.
The men were able to live on coconuts and well water but they finally used palm fronds to spell out ‘HELP’ on the beach and were rescued.
Stars and Stripes reports:
3 stranded men were down to coconuts and a dead battery before Pacific rescue
Three men rescued this week from a remote atoll in the Pacific were subsisting on coconuts and well water when a U.S.