Breaking News English Lesson on Rescue

Three men were rescued from a remote desert island on Thursday. They became marooned on the uninhabited South Pacific island of Fanadik, several hundred kilometres north of Papua New Guinea. Their boat capsized at night, but the men managed to swim for nearly three kilometres to reach land. They stayed on the island for three days and believed they were modern-day castaways. They wrote the word 'HELP' in the sand with palm leaves so that a plane might spot them. Their prayers were answered when a U.S. Coast Guard plane saw their message on the beach.

The Coast Guard spoke about the rescue, saying: "Our combined efforts, coupled with the willingness of many different resources to come together and help, led to the successful rescue of these three men in a very remote part of the Pacific." The men were put on a boat back to the island of Pulap, from where they had first set out to sea. None of the men was injured. The rescue is one of many done by the U.S. Coast Guard recently. They have worked on seven search-and-rescue missions in the South Pacific, saving the lives of 15 people.