With only days or even hours left to live, a fishing boat halfway between Samoa and Fiji spotted them.
Their situation was so dire that they began drinking seawater, a sure sign that death is near. Having spent more than a month adrift at sea, the three boys had no food and no water, and were suffering from extreme exposure.
Around 500 people attended a memorial service for the boys, representing about a third of the total population of the island chain. Meanwhile, after a month with no news, their community believed that the boys were dead. After a few weeks-with no food and no sign of rescue-they grew desperate enough to catch a bird and eat it. They had brought enough water with them for two days, but that quickly ran out and they had to rely on rainwater. Not knowing which way was home, the group became lost, drifting further and further from land. Shortly after sailing into the ocean, the three teens lost sight of the shore and became disoriented. However, when Filo Filo, Etueni Nasau, and Samu Pelesa set sail on October 5, 2010, it would be a longer trip than any of them were expecting. The islands are close enough together that sailing from one to the other is a relatively simple, cheap, and straightforward mode of travel.įor three teenage boys on the small island of Tokelau, sailing was routine. In many Pacific island chains, people use small boats to sail from one island to the next.
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