A miracle - Papua New Guinea fishermen, adrift in the sea for five months, rescued

There were three fishermen of Papua New Guinea who had been adrift in the Pacific Ocean for five months and two of them have now been rescued – the third had died. The two who have been rescued are now recovering in a Pacific hospital in the town of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands.
They had endured a five month ordeal drifting helplessly in an open boat and had survived by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater.
They were finally picked up by a fishing boat called Yap Seagull, about 120 miles south of remote Kapingamarangi Island and the doctors have described them as being in 'reasonable' condition considering the months that they had spent drifting across the ocean.
While the full details are yet to be established, it is understood that they had drifted helplessly for at least 1000 miles. They had set out on a fishing trip in early July from their village in the province of New Ireland, which comes under Papua New Guinea administration. It seems they became to victims of engine break down of their boat and then victims of the ocean currents.