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

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

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