SIX BRAZILIAN SAILORS RESCUED FROM DESERT ISLAND

Six sailors stranded on a remote island without food for almost two weeks were rescued by the Brazilian Navy after they sent a message in a bottle out to sea. The sailors became stranded on a small island known as Arrow Island on April 1 after their boat caught fire. The remote island is located off the coast of the Brazilian state of Para and is completely uninhabited. They survived on rainwater and limited rations. They weren’t reported missing until April 11, when they failed to return from a 10-day ocean expedition. While on the island they wrote a note reading, “Help, help! We need help, our boat caught fire, we have been on Arrow Island for 13 days without food, let our family know,” and put it into a plastic water bottle, tied it to a bright orange life preserver and sent it out into the sea. Miraculously, the message was soon picked up by a fisherman, who quickly forwarded it to the Brazilian Navy. Last Wednesday evening, the men were rescued after 13 days stranded on the island. Doctors reported that they are all in good general health, but very dehydrated from their ordeal.
* You see – plastic water bottles dumped into the ocean can have a purpose. So shut up with your talk of ocean trash.
* A couple of thousand more plastic bottles and they could’ve built a raft.
* Six sailors. Takes them 13 days to think about sending a message. Sad.
* Six sailors on a desert island, and no volleyball.
* Boy, I sure hope they didn’t actually start out with SEVEN.
* The only tragedy, really, was that in the meantime all six of their girlfriends had remarried their dentists.