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An Indonesian teenager working as a lamp-keeper aboard a wooden raft was rescued off the coast of Guam after drifting for seven weeks in the ocean, the newspaper reports. Jakarta Post.
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was first washed away by the sea on July 14 after a strong wind broke the line that anchored his fishing raft, called "rompong", positioned 78 miles into the sea. Pacific Ocean. Adilang was at the mercy of currents and waves as there was no way to repel himself, as the raft is not powered by a motor and there is no other instrument for control his movements.
"I thought I would never see my parents again, so I was just praying every day," Adilang told The Associated Press.
Adilang ran out of food after a week and survived by eating fish and drinking partially filtered seawater, he said.
"After missing the cooking gas, he burned the wooden fences of the wrestling to cook," said Mirza Nurhidayat, Consul General of Indonesia in Japan. "He drank sipping water from his clothes that had been wet with seawater."
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According to the PA, Adilang's six-month contract with his employer required him to use a lamp at night to catch fish. It's a solitary job, they note, because the gates are so far in the ocean that they can not be seen from the coast and the other rafts are miles away. Supplies are usually made once every seven days and all that's left is a gas cooker, utensils and a generator.
"I was on the raft for a month and 18 days. My food has run out after the first week, "Adilang said.
Adilang says he was even followed by a shark.
"I could only pray for the shark to go away," he told TribunManado, according to NBC.
Aldi Roman Adilang was adrift in a raft of wood
CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDONESIA AT OSAKA HANDOUT / EPA-EFE / REX / Shutterstock
Adilang was found using the lamp and walkie-talkie to try and report the boats that passed during the 49 days he was on the surface, but each boat passed without any idea of the problem.
"Aldi said that he had been scared and cried often adrift," said Fajar Firdaus, a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy, to the press. Jakarta To post. "Every time he saw a big ship, he had hope, but more than 10 ships had sailed it, none of them had stopped or had seen Aldi."
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Finally, a Panamanian-flagged vessel spotted Adilang off Guam, nearly 1,200 miles from its original position. Adilang used his walkie talkie to help the radio alert the crew, who fed him and cut his hair once on board.
The ship transported Adilang to Japan (their original destination) and was finally reunited with his family on 8 September.
Adilang no longer wants to work on a showdown, he told the AP.
