Three sailors have been rescued from a tiny Pacific Ocean islet after spelling out 'HELP' in the sand using palm leaves following a week of being stranded.
Three sailors have been rescued from a tiny Pacific Ocean island after spelling out "HELP" in the sand using palm leaves after a week of being stranded.
After taking damage to their boat, they managed to scramble ashore on the tiny uninhabited Pikelot, but their radio ran out of battery before they could call for help. Officials have said it is difficult to overstate how remote Pikelot is. The island is part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a Pacific nation between the Philippines and Hawaii that is made up of more than 600 islands scattered across about 2.5 million square kilometers of ocean.
Upon arriving on the tiny island, one of the Coast Guard officers realised that he was third cousins with one of the men, and fourth cousins with the other two.
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