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An Indonesian teenager spent 49 days at sea in a fishing hut before being spotted by a Panamanian flagged vessel.
In July, Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working as a lamp-keeper, lighting lamps to lure fish into the fishing hut floating off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Adilang was then adrift, transported more than 1,500 miles by the tides until he was rescued off the coast of the American territory of Guam.
The teenager survived by catching fish for eating and drinking seawater as he filtered through his clothes to reduce the amount of salt that it contained.
He stated that more than 10 ships passed him during his stay at sea before he was seen and stopped on 31 August.
"Aldi said that he was scared and that he often cried adrift," said diplomat Fajar Firdaus, who works with the Indonesian consulate in Osaka, at the Jakarta Post.
The crew fed him and gave him water, and the ship's cook even cut Adilang's hair.
Adilang has since reunited with his family and is doing well.
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