Two fishermen who were missing since their departure from the Marshall Islands on April 2 have been found floating in the Pacific Ocean after 42 days. The men docked about 1,600 kilometers away on a small island in Micronesia on Thursday morning, the New Zealand Herald.
According to the health minister of the Marshall Islands, the fishermen were “skinny and as weak as you would expect after 40 days at sea.” He has made no further statements about the duo’s condition.
The two fishermen were part of a group of three fishermen. The men went missing after having engine trouble near Kwajalein, one of the Marshall Islands. The men ‘s boat drifted further out into the sea due to bad weather and ended up on Namoluk, a small island in Micronesia, more than forty days later.
It is not known where the third fisherman left off. The two men were received in a hospital in Weno, Micronesia’s largest city.
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