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The Indonesian teenager already had one of the most lonely jobs on the planet.
Over the last three years, for $ 130 a month, Aldi Novel Adilang has lived in a small floating fishing hut, known as dabbling about 80 miles north of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The tattered and fragile wooden raft, which is part of a traditional method of catching fish, contained a trap and was moored to a concrete block at the bottom of the Pacific.
The 19-year-old from Sulawesi Island spent his days sitting on the raft, while at night he lit lamps around the rompong to attract fish.
The owner of the machine, who owned about 50 floating cabins in the area, sent a person every week to pick up the fish in his trap and drop off food, water, fuel and other supplies.
Twice, Adilang's hubbub broke loose. But both times, the teenager and his hut were saved by his boss and resettled in the middle of the ocean.
On July 14, Adilang did not have the same luck.
Around 7 am, a storm again ripped off the arm of his mooring and the teenager was sent to float north into the Pacific.
He would launch it into a poignant odyssey, alone and adrift in shark-infested waters for 49 days.
"I thought I would never see my parents again, so I was just praying every day," he recalls.
At first, Adilang said, he was not too worried when he realized that the rope of his rough anchor had broken.
He fell asleep that night at the mercy of the tides, and when he woke up the next day, he stayed at the door of his booth, patiently waiting for one of his boss's rescue ships.
None has appeared. Not that day, the next day, or the next day.
On the fifth day, Adilang said that its solar-powered portable radio, known as "talky-talky" or HT in Indonesia, was beginning to lose its signal intermittently.
At the end of the week, the teen started to panic. There was no rescue ship in sight and his food supply was gone. He started catching fish. Sometimes he ate them raw and even rancid to maintain himself.
"After running out of cooking gas [for a small stove]he burned the wooden fences of the fire arm to cook, "said Mirza Nurhidayat, Indonesian Consul General in Osaka, Jakarta Post.
The ingenious teenager knew that the lack of water could be his passing away, so he was frugal with his stock, only giving himself three sips a day.
When his water supply ran out and it did not rain for a long time, "he drank while sipping water from his clothes wet with seawater," said Mirza.
Sopping his clothes minimized his salt intake.
Adilang said he designed a routine to pass the time. In the morning he caught fish; in the afternoon, he lay on the raft and prepared his meal; and in the evening he prayed.
It has not always helped.
The teenager told the TribunManado information site that he was scared and frequently in tears, fearing never to see his family again and to think that he was doomed to "die there." ".
At one point, he confessed that he became suicidal.
"It was like jumping into the sea, it was an outlet," Adilang said.
But then he remembered the advice his parents had given him in times of distress: pray.
He had a Bible, so he did it.
At one point, Adilang spotted large flippers coming out of the waves and was terrified, he said.
"I could only pray that the shark was gone," he said.
The teenager said she saw at least 10 ships during her ordeal and screamed, waved her clothes and tried to hail them by radio.
"Every time he saw a big ship, he said he was hopeful," said Fajar Firdaus, another diplomat at the consulate in Osaka. "But more than 10 ships sailed in front of him, none of them stopped."
On the night of August 30 – his 48th day at sea – Adilang sang spiritual songs before falling asleep.
On the morning of August 31, the Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier MV Arpeggio sailed on the Adilang raft, which was floating off Guam.
The teenager shouted and waved a cloth, but the crew did not see it.
He turned on his radio.
"Help, help, help!" He implored.
Mirza marveled, "The captain of the ship caught the signal. Achieve [there was someone pleading for help], He turned around."
But the situation of the teenager was not over.
The waves were rough and jerky, and the arpeggio circled his raft four times, trying to get closer. After failing, the crew attempted to throw a rope to Adilang, but they could not reach.
But the teenager would not let anything stop him.
He "decided to jump into the sea to catch the rope, while the waves and the wind shook him," said Fajar.
The video of the miraculous rescue shows Adilang squeezing a wobbly ladder on the side of the ship by wrapping his arms and legs.
Team members can be seen pulling the ladder slowly, revealing the ragged teenager.
Adilang was wearing a navy blue T-shirt with the word "Ferrari" and gray shorts hanging from his emaciated hips. He looks exhausted and dizzy while he is pulled aboard.
His rescuers wrap blue towels around him as if Adilang was sagging. They give him a cup of water. He lowers it and coughs before shaking hands.
One can see a rescuer asking him if he is the only shipwrecked aboard the rompong. Raising a finger, he asks, "One? Only one? No more?"
"No more," Adilang answers.
The captain immediately contacted Guam's coastguard, who told him to continue to the ship's destination, Tokuyama, Japan, where consulate officials could help Adilang.
The crew members then gave the teenager fresh clothes and food, while the ship's cook cut her hair.
The MV Arpeggio landed at Tokuyama on September 6th at 3pm.
He left the ship for Japan the next day.
Adilang, the youngest of four siblings, was reunited with his family on 9 September in his hometown of Wori, in good health.
His mother, Net Kahiking, told Agence France-Presse that his son's boss had told them the news when he was missing.
"We went to God and continued to pray hard," she said.
When Adilang's boss came back to the family with news of the teenager's rescue, "I was shocked," admitted the mother.
"I was so happy."
Adilang's father, Alfian Adilang, said he was delighted too – though he continues to insult his son's employer, which he says was negligent in this ordeal.
Jefri Sagune, president of the Indonesian Association of Small Fishermen, called on the government to provide GPS tracking devices to fishermen such as Adilang.
Anyway, says Adilang, he does not want to work in a fish trap anymore.
"My parents agree," he said.
In the meantime, his birthday is Sunday and the family is planning a party.
"We will celebrate," said his mother.
With post wires
