Boy survives three days at sea 01/08/2011

Boy survives three days at sea

01/08/2011
A 15-year-old schoolboy who was sent alone to sea by his grandmother to fish survived three days adrift after his boat engine failed, local authorities said yesterday.

The hungry, thirsty and exhausted boy, sixth-grader Mark Sanico, washed ashore aboard his tiny dugout in the central city of Danao last Thursday, and is recovering at a local hospital, police officer Cherry Panares told AFP.

“He was very weak. He had had no food or drink for three days. He said he had some boiled ground corn, but it spoiled early so he had nothing to eat,” Panares told AFP by telephone.

The big waves meant he could not cast his net out to get food, she added..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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