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On a small uninhabited island that's but a small dot on the Pacific, 15 marooned people joined hands to form a giant "SOS" on the beach. Washed up in a deserted paradise, all the castaways could do was to hope that someone would spot them.
It sounds like an episode of "Survivor" but the 15 people -- six children and nine adults -- are from Chuuk, a group of islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. And this was no television drama.
Missing since Tuesday, after their small boat hit a coral reef and overturned, the castaways were finally spotted and are awaiting rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard, said spokesman Ensign Richard Russell.
He said they would be rescued after daylight Saturday.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/22/guam.missing.skiff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
It sounds like an episode of "Survivor" but the 15 people -- six children and nine adults -- are from Chuuk, a group of islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. And this was no television drama.
Missing since Tuesday, after their small boat hit a coral reef and overturned, the castaways were finally spotted and are awaiting rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard, said spokesman Ensign Richard Russell.
He said they would be rescued after daylight Saturday.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/22/guam.missing.skiff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
