Australian sailor Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella were rescued after two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, having survived the ordeal by drinking rainwater and snacking on raw fish
The sun sets as a fisherman casts his line in the Pacific Ocean while sitting on a surfboard off the coast of Cardiff, California April 1, 2008. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella set off in a catamaran from Mexico's seaside city of La Paz in April and planned to sail about 6,000 kilometres before dropping anchor in tropical French Polynesia. In an unlikely rescue reminiscent of the Tom Hanks movie"Cast Away", the bedraggled amateur yachtsman was plucked from the water two months later by a Mexican tuna trawler.
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