Who says the United States isn’t the world’s policeman?
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Saturday that along with the Navy, it rescued three men on the remote Pacific island of Fanadik days after a wave capsized their skiff a few miles off the uninhabited island. The island is one of the Pattiw Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, a sovereign country of thousands of small islands that relies on U.S. aide. Fanadik is hundreds miles north of the nation of Papua New Guinea
“After a large wave reportedly swamped their skiff, these men swim nearly 2 miles at night. Upon arrival to the island they built the help sign and waited for rescue,” an annoucement by the U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific said.
The sailors wrote “H-E-L-P” in palm leaves in the sand and were spotted by a Navy plane dispatched as part of search efforts.
“Our combined efforts coupled with the willingness of many different resources to come together and help, led to the successful rescue of these three men in a very remote part of the Pacific,” Coast Guard spokesman Lt. William White said in a statement.
The Coast Guard had been notified that they were missing as early as Tuesday morning.
