Story for today

 

The true story of six Tongan teenage castaways in 1965.

Fifty-five years ago, in June 1965, six Tongan teenagers ran away from their strict boarding school, procured a boat and set sail for what they thought would be a little adventure. A storm damaged the boat, and they ended up shipwrecked on a remote island for 15 months.

Unlike Lord of the Flies, they survived by working together. An Australian sailor spotted the teenagers and rescued them. 

 

One of the six survivors, Sione Fataua, told Jessie Mulligan they ran into trouble the first night, when high winds broke the mast and damaged the boat “in the middle of nowhere”.

The decision to abandon ship and swim towards the island had been a tough one, but had been necessary. When on the island they were exhausted and didn't know where they had landed.

“We hoped that a boat would come by with some people looking for us. The only thing we could do was pray and hope somebody would find us. There was no way we could do anything. We didn’t have a compass, we didn’t have anything.”

The Californian resident said fate had saved their lives, as where the boat had dumped them turned out to be the only hospitable part of the island.

“Without food and water for eight days we thought we were going to die,” he said.

“But God gave us that place and saved us, otherwise we would have died in the ocean. 

“We got some eggs and seabirds and ate them raw. Anything we could catch.”

 

So far guys those are that I could right form a documentary hopefully you guys like the story and there is even a song about castaways so if you want to you could listen to it bye.