On October 9, 2005, five...
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On October 9, 2005, five Mexican fisherman set out from San Blas, Mexico, to look for
sharks. Unfortunately, their 27-foot fiberglass boat developed motor problems and they
were left adrift. Two men jumped off the boat in an attempt to swim for safety and
drowned. The other three men, Jesus Vadaña, Lucio Rendon, and Salvador Ordoñez, did
their best to survive. And survive they did. They ate raw fish, sea gulls, and ducks if they
could snare them, and drank rainwater. There were stretches as long as fifteen days that
they went without food. They read their Bible every day.
The winds carried the fisherman across the Pacific until they neared the Marshall Islands, a trip of over 5,500 miles. They were rescued by a Taiwanese fishing vessel in mid- August 2006, over nine months after they embarked on their trip.
One relative in Mexico told reporters, "I'm trembling all over and I think I'm going to have a heart attack. They went fishing and they never came back. We thought they were dead." There was much joy at their discovery and return, much like there is each time a lost sinner is found.
The winds carried the fisherman across the Pacific until they neared the Marshall Islands, a trip of over 5,500 miles. They were rescued by a Taiwanese fishing vessel in mid- August 2006, over nine months after they embarked on their trip.
One relative in Mexico told reporters, "I'm trembling all over and I think I'm going to have a heart attack. They went fishing and they never came back. We thought they were dead." There was much joy at their discovery and return, much like there is each time a lost sinner is found.
