US Navy rescues sailors and their 2 dogs lost at sea for months

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From http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-navy-rescues-sailors-lost-pacific-months/story?id=50734707 :

US Navy rescues sailors and their 2 dogs lost at sea for months
By LUIS MARTINEZ Oct 26, 2017, 12:05 PM ET


USS Ashland (LSD 48) Command Master Chief Gary Wise welcomes aboard Jennifer Appel, an American mariner who had received assistance from Ashland crew members, Oct. 25, 2017.


Sailors help Zeus, one of two dogs who were accompanying two mariners who were aided by the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Oct. 25, 2017.

Two civilian mariners were rescued at sea by a U.S. Navy ship after being stranded in the Pacific Ocean for almost five months.

The two mariners were well off course: They left Honolulu on their sailboat in the spring, bound for Tahiti, 2,600 miles away in the South Pacific, but were rescued in the western Pacific 900 miles southeast of Japan.

Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba, both from Honolulu, and their two dogs were rescued on Wednesday by the USS Ashland (LSD 48), an amphibious transport dock ship.

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On Tuesday a Taiwanese fishing vessel discovered the pair 900 miles from Japan, nearly 5,000 miles from their planned destination.
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[sheshe2]

1. Thank the Goddess for the...

Years worth of food and water filtration. I can't even imagine 5 months at sea and I love the ocean.

[Kittycow]

2. Thank you Navy!

I can hardly wait to read the book!

[irisblue]

3. Okay, I want more info.

[irisblue]

4. On watching the videos by the Navy rescue boat

Their dogs weren't having any of it.Barking, Barking.
And the USS Ashland gets to have 2 dogs on board for a bit.

[bonzotex]

5. glad for the rescue

Something odd about the plight of these "mariners". The mast and rigging look more or less intact. If they had simply continued to sail West, even slowly, they would have found land months ago. I wonder what they found unseaworthy about the boat?

Also, these days, emergency locator beacons are pretty ubiquitous - Sat phones too.

Definitely more story here.

[Stuart G]

6. Great Story!!!!...thanks for posting....

[lpbk2713]

7. They must have gone through a lot of rough seas in that time.

I'm glad they all made it through OK.