An Indonesian teenager has survived 49 days adrift at sea in a fishing hut, before he was rescued by a Panamanian-flagged vessel and returned home.
Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut
STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 24, ARTSAKHPRESS: Aldi Novel Adilang, a 19-year-old from Sulawesi, worked as a lamp keeper on a floating fish trap, known locally as rompong, located 125km out at sea, the Guardian reports.
The teenager was employed to light the rompong’s lamps, designed to attract the fish, and according to his father had done the job since he was sixteen.
Each week someone from his company would come to harvest the fish from the traps and deliver him fresh supplies of food, water and fuel.
The small, floating wooden hut – one of 50 owned by the company and spread across the waters of Manado – was anchored to the seabed by a long rope and suspended by bouys.
But in mid-July heavy winds snapped its moorings and sent Aldi adrift into the ocean.
