This is a truly amazing story about how two sailors, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba and their two dogs, Zeus and Valentine, were rescued after being adrift in the Pacific Ocean for five months. The USS Ashland, an amphibious landing ship, that was luckily doing patrol when they received the alert from a Taiwanese fishing boat that had first spotted them, performed the rescue effort on Wednesday.
Appel and Fuiaba had set sail from Hawaii in spring, their destination was Tahiti a course of 2,700 miles, but on May 30 their engine died during a storm and damaged their communication equipment. They experienced other debilitating problems, a piece of the mast called a spreader failed, limiting the sailboat’s maneuverability, their phones were lost overboard on the first day out, even the water purifier had stopped working and they were down to their last gallon of water when Ms. Appel got it fixed.
via Whisker Therapy