Three men in a boat: nine months living on raw fish and the occasional seagull

They survived by eating raw fish and seagulls, drinking rainwater and keeping desperation at bay by reading the Bible. Three Mexican fishermen, who say they left port nine months ago, have been picked up safe, and almost sound, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

"We thought about death a lot but we never lost hope," Salvador Ordóñez told Mexican television in a telephone interview from the Taiwanese-manned tuna fishing boat that rescued the three men last week.

Mr Ordóñez, Jesús Vidaña and Lucio Rendón said they set off on October 28 from the sleepy fishing and tourist town of San Blas in the Pacific coastal state of Nayarit. The three men, all in their 20s, were intending to catch some shark in deep water and had taken a few days of food and water on board their 27-foot boat with two outboard motors.

Everything was going normally until they had problems with their fishing equipment. Then they ran out of fuel. "The wind started taking us," Mr Ordóñez said, remembering the Marias Islands penal colony (itself some 50 miles from the mainland) slowly disappearing on the horizon. "Day after day we saw the islands getting further away and that was a terrible moment. To see them there and not have the fuel to get to them."
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