09 Jan Sailor And His Cat Found In The Indian Ocean Seven Months After Their Boat Broke

Talk about a Christmas miracle! On Christmas Day, 54-year-old Zbigniew Reket and his cat were rescued by the French coastguard after seven months adrift at sea. Reket had been adrift in a modified lifeboat without food or any ability to call for help.

Reket was trying to travel to South Africa, but ran into trouble and was rescued along the coast of Reunion Island, east of Madagascar. His cat, Samira, was his only company, and after a one-month supply of soup rations ran out, they survived on fish Reket caught from the ocean.

Reket, who is originally Polish, had been living in the United States, but could not return after a trip to India because his green card had expired. It was in India where he bought his boat, which was originally a lifeboat for a cruise ship.

He planned to sail to Jakarta, Indonesia, but the mast broke. He managed to make it to the Comoros Islands, where he found Samira and spent two years there repairing his boat and attempting to contact officials in Poland through the embassy in Kenya.

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