Indonesian teenager survives for 49 days adrift at sea in a flimsy hut
In a tale of extraordinary human survival, an Indonesian teenager has managed to keep himself alive for 49 days while floating adrift in a flimsy hut for thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working lonely shifts as a lamp keeper for a floating fish trap, 80 miles off the coast of Indonesia’s North Sulawesi in July when strong winds broke the mooring and pushed him far out to sea. He was eventually rescued in late August by a ship sailing under a Panama flag that picked him up in the waters near Guam and ...
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