Stories about castaways are mainly the stuff of movies or footnotes in history books.
But then there's the mid-May rescue of two Kiribati natives who, along with a relative, had set off for a day's fishing in mid-February, only to run out of fuel and be cast adrift in the Pacific. A spokesman for fishing outfit Kyokuyo Suisan Co. recounted their ordeal and rescue Thursday to The Japan Times.
"Our boat was fishing for bonitos and tuna in the Western Pacific," Kyokuyo Suisan's Shinya Yoshimoto said. "That's when one of our crew spotted the drifting vessel."