An abandoned person on the beach, illustration - pixabay

If one day by misfortune you find yourself stranded on a desert island in the middle of the ocean, lost and doomed, know that sometimes the giant SOS blow in the sand, it really works.

Telling themselves in any case that it was necessary to try, screwed for screwed up, three Micronized sailors were able to be rescued after a shipwreck on a tiny island in the Pacific thanks to the famous three-letter acronym drawn in gigantic on the beach, and spotted by Australian and American planes.

Safe and sound

The Australian army explained that it had spotted the three men on Sunday on Pikelot islet, 190 km from where they had left three days earlier. The seven-meter boat they were on had run out of fuel and then drifted. Alerted by the Guam-based Pacific Rescue and Coordination Center, American and Australian planes were mobilized and spotted on Sunday the SOS.

A helicopter was dispatched from the Australian ship HMAS Canberra with food and water, ensuring the three castaways were in good health. They were later rescued by a Micronesian patrol boat, the Australian military said.

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