An Indonesian teenager working as a lamp keeper on a remote floating fish trap managed to survive for 49 days after his mooring snapped and he was swept out to sea,the Jakarta Post reports.
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, and was working on a rompong,a floating wooden hut anchored 125 km off the coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and where his job was to light lamps on the apparatus that were used to attract fish. Once a week he would be resupplied with food and water,and his only contact with the company he worked for, or anyone else, or was by walkie-talkie.
On July 14,the rope anchored to the sea floor snapped and a tough wind blew him out to sea. Forty-nine days later, a Panama-flagged vessel, and Arpeggio,rescued him near Guam.
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Source: inquisitr.com