A lost fisherman who drifted at sea for 15 weeks, sleeping next to his dead brother-in-law, was eventually helped to safety - by a shark.
Toakai Teitoi was stuck on a 15ft wooden boat for more than 100 days after he ran out of fuel and the vessel drifted deep into the Pacific.
The 41-year-old Kiribati policeman relived his harrowing voyage after a fishing boat eventually picked him up and took him to Majuro in the Marshall Islands.
The father-of-six told of sleeping with the body of his brother-in-law who died during the ordeal, suffering severe dehydration.
And he said it was only after the intervention of a circling shark that he was eventually rescued.
Mr Teitoi's ordeal began on May 27 after he had flown from his home island of Maiana to the Kiribati capital of Tarawa to be sworn in as a policeman.
Instead of flying home he decided to join his brother-in-law Lelu Falaile, 52, on what was supposed to be a two-hour sea journey back to Maiana.
But after stopping to fish along the way and sleeping overnight, they woke the following day to find they had drifted out of sight of Maiana and ran out of fuel.
"We had food, but the problem was we had nothing to drink," he said.
Continued: http://news.sky.com/story/985970/shark-rescues-man-lost-at-sea-for-15-weeks
Toakai Teitoi was stuck on a 15ft wooden boat for more than 100 days after he ran out of fuel and the vessel drifted deep into the Pacific.
The 41-year-old Kiribati policeman relived his harrowing voyage after a fishing boat eventually picked him up and took him to Majuro in the Marshall Islands.
The father-of-six told of sleeping with the body of his brother-in-law who died during the ordeal, suffering severe dehydration.
And he said it was only after the intervention of a circling shark that he was eventually rescued.
Mr Teitoi's ordeal began on May 27 after he had flown from his home island of Maiana to the Kiribati capital of Tarawa to be sworn in as a policeman.
Instead of flying home he decided to join his brother-in-law Lelu Falaile, 52, on what was supposed to be a two-hour sea journey back to Maiana.
But after stopping to fish along the way and sleeping overnight, they woke the following day to find they had drifted out of sight of Maiana and ran out of fuel.
"We had food, but the problem was we had nothing to drink," he said.
Continued: http://news.sky.com/story/985970/shark-rescues-man-lost-at-sea-for-15-weeks
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