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This is a cool story
Sam06
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- Mano Totau and Sione Fataua shared their stunning survival story in a 60 Minutes special aired Sunday
- They were teens studying at a Tonga boarding school when they and four friends decided to steal a whaling boat and travel to Fiji in June of 1965
- The joyride took a grim turn when a storm ripped apart the engineless boat and left them drifting for days
- They eventually landed on the volcanic island of 'Ata, where they were stranded for 15 months
- Totau and Fataua described how they lived on raw fish and birds and built a makeshift compound to survive
- It wasn't until September 1966 that sailor Peter Warner spotted the boys and rescued them
- More than 50 years later their story was revived by Dutch author Rutger Bregman in a book last year
- Bregman said he was struck by how the story resembled William Golding's iconic novel Lord of the Flies
RLTW
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A great story. I have never heard of this before.
I hadn't heard of it either.
Wow, what a story!
Very interesting story....thanks for putting that up...
Thanks for posting. Finding the chicken population not only meant meat but eggs also. Finding the container and machete was a big asset. Since there were only six of them there wasn't much chance of a division among them.
Just watched Lord of the flies lastnight, strange.